Interesting facts about plants. The most interesting fact about the plant

Plants of our planet do not just serve as decoration and gardening. They are an important link in maintaining the life of all breathing creatures. In addition, plants can signal and communicate with the animal world. Therefore, it would not be out of place to learn the details and interesting facts from the life of plants.

Fruit

Although it may seem to us that we are already so familiar with fruits, many will be curious to learn some interesting facts about cultivated plants.

• If you tear the apple and put it into the water, it will not go to the bottom, since it contains 25% of the air.
• There is more sugar in the lemon than in the strawberry.
• In the Renaissance it was believed that oranges saved from plague. Because of this, they were installed at a huge cost and therefore they could only afford to know.
• Papaya juice is the best solvent against contaminants.
• Lemon, thanks to its acid, can serve as a conductor. For example, if you solder copper and zinc wires to a simple light bulb and insert them into a lemon, it will light up.

Cereals

But not only fruit can surprise. For example, corn contains a rare element - gold. In addition, there is an even number of grains on each cob. Also worth noting is another interesting fact about the plant. Corn is never wild, because it can not grow unless it is planted by a person. It is not able to spread self-sowing.

Earlier rice grains were used during interrogations. They acted as a lie detector. The suspect was given a handful of rice in his mouth, and then forced to spit it out. If the cereal remained dry means, the person is guilty, because of fear he did not produce saliva.

Facts about berries

• In some places, strawberries are considered nuts. In addition, this is the only berry with seeds outside.
• But interesting facts about cultivated plants are not limited to this. For example, in India they use bananas as a means of launching ships at sea. The surface on which the transport will go, smear this berry and it slips. For the descent of one vessel, about 20,000 fruits are spent.
• Previously, to make the paint gray, the milk was dropped strawberries and the mixture was boiled.
• In 1951, a variety of watermelons was obtained, in which there were no bones. But the big difficulty was that this fruit without seeds did not give "offspring".

Details about legumes

• Peanuts are not a nut, as many believe. It belongs to the family of legumes.
• Peanut extract is a component that is a part of dynamite.
• There is another interesting fact about the plant called pea. Seafarers consider him an enemy because of one case. A steamship called "Dnepr", passing by the reefs, received a small hole through which water poured into the compartment with peas. After a while, the beans began to swell and the ship was collapsed from the inside.

Facts about bumps

Particular curiosity is caused by gymnosperms. They attract not only their external characteristics, but also their inherent characteristics. Here are some interesting facts about gymnosperms:

• In geometry, there is the concept of "cone", and it appeared due to the word "cone", (meaning pine cone).
• In France, two Spaniards were arrested, who collected cones in their truck. They were called "thieves of nature", and a trial was to take place over them.
• To feed one squirrel, 100 to 150 cones are required. Each animal is processed in three minutes. Pine cones to it to process easier, than fur-trees.
• In Russia, pine resin was a medicine for the oral cavity. When a person chewed it, his teeth strengthened and the oral cavity was disinfected.
• Ripe bumps react to humidity in the air. In dry weather, they open and vice versa.

Exotic edible plants

Exotic vegetation seems especially amazing for a Russian person. Therefore, it will be fascinating to consider interesting facts about plants that can not be seen outside the window.

• In Oceania, you can plant and grow a breadfruit tree. It brings fruit "loaves", each weighing about 12 kilos. Inside the ripe plant is a sweetish "dough", which you can feed your family by baking food from it. These trees bear fruit about 70 years.
• The juice of the Venezuelan galactodendron can be drunk raw. It resembles the taste of cow's cream mixed with sugar. And if the juice of this tree is boiled, from it you can get an unusual curd dessert.
• It is worth mentioning the interesting fact about the plant growing on the banks of the Gulf of Guinea. It is a palm tree that fruits nuts. Juice, when thickened, is very similar to quality butter.
• There are such plants that can replace lollipops. By sweetness they are better than sugar. Stevia belongs to such plants. You can use her leaves as food. But there is a shrub which is considered the sweetest plant. It grows in West Africa and is called ketemph.
• To trees, whose fruits are able to replace dessert, is a plant that grows in Oceania. This plant is very similar to the taste of familiar to all cakes.

Of course, there are still many amazing trees, shrubs and grasses that we have never seen. But I want to mention the last interesting fact about the plant with edible leaves. This is kalir-kanda from India. The locals nicknamed him "deceive the stomach." This is not surprising: if you only eat two leaves, the appetite disappears for a whole week. The illusion of satiety is created. On the basis of this plant, pills and syrups are now being made for people with excess kilograms.

Records of plants of the whole earth

Virtually every kind of vegetation has its own record holders, which differ in age, size, color or other notable features. Below are the main interesting facts about plants from all over the world.

• In Antarctica, a lichen grows, which is more than 10,000 years old. The growth of this plant is very slow. For a hundred years, it can only grow by 3.5 millimeters.
• In some places an unusual plant is grown. It is known as the "hump". Its fruits have a shape in the form of dishes. If you try, you can even collect a service.
• In the waters of the Amazon, a lily was found, the leaves of which reached two meters. If they put a baby on them, the plant will hold it.
• The most unpleasant smelling plant is amorphophallus. The smell reminds a rotten fish and causes disgust.
• Arabidopsis is probably the most uncomfortable plant. It was able to bloom in the conditions of space and give it to seeds.
• In China, there is bamboo, which is called leaf-list. He is surprised that he grows at a speed of 40 cm per day.
• The plant of ceratonia in antiquity was the standard of accuracy of weight. Any of its seeds always had a weight of 0.2 grams. Gradually this measure became known as karate.

Nature of Russia

Although overseas plants impress with their characteristics, you can also find interesting facts about plants in Russia. For example, in the middle latitudes a hibernating horsetail is found . It is amazing with its unusual rigidity. Its stem is capable of leaving a scratch even on the steel surface.

Also, the cherry has a distinctive feature - this berry can replace aspirin. In its composition, anthocyanins are present, which have similar effects.

Many people know the plant belladonna. It is poisonous, but despite this, Russian beauties dripped it in the eyes to make them more clear by expanding the pupils. In this case, the substance acts poisonously, causing a strong rage.