In article features of some plants reveal.
ANYTHING EXCEPT the FACTS
Anything except the facts
– Apple for 84 % consists of water, and in a cucumber it makes 96 %.
– Pineapple – is berry, as well as oranges, lemons, water-melons and tomatoes.
– Sequoias grow in California, dostigayoyushchy in height of 150 meters. Their diameter stvolov more than 10 meters. And age of trees – more than 4000 years.
– Rizofora – a viviparous tree. Its seeds sprout in fruits and hang down in the form of sticks in length about a meter. When the fruit reveals, the sprout falls and pierces we will dress the end in silt, becoming a new tree.
– Plants react to sounds. With pomoshhyu certain sounds it is possible to influence their growth. One of the most "sensitive" plants is fig.
– Avocado – the most high-calorie fruit. Hundred grams contain 167 calories.
– In Siberia in 1994 in 2000-year burial of the Scythian princess and the priestess among the various subjects buried together with it, the container marixuany was found.
– In the Netherlands in 1634 there was sovershena an unusual transaction: in exchange for one luyokovitsa of a tulip of viceroy the buyer gave 1000 pounds of the cheese, four bulls, eight sviyony, 12 sheep, a bed and a chest with clothes.
– Any type of plants has no flowers of black color, and still such flower couldn’t receive artificially.
– The nutmeg can appear poison for the person if extract to enter intravenously.
– Oaks don’t give acorns, yet dostignut 50-year age.
– From one pound of tea it is possible to receive 300 cups of drink.
– Orchids have the smallest semena: 1,25 million seeds weigh 1 gram.
– The peanut belongs to family of the boyobovy.
– The plants, being pollinated moths, have white or pale yellow color, chtoby to be more appreciable, when lighting weak. The plants which pollination depends on butterflies, such as poppy or a hibiscus, have brighter a flower.
– The first American advertizing of tobacco appeared in 1789. On it the Indian smoking a long clay pipe was represented.
– The biggest flower – a raffleziya, or a cadaveric flower. It reaches three futov in diameter.
– Oldest of nowadays existing plants – a pine in (Kaliforyony’s) White mountains, which 4600 years.
– The flora of oceans makes about 85 % of all terrestrial flora.
– The highest in the world a grass which sometimes reaches in height of 130 foots and more – a bamboo;
– In the USA the register is made of more than 700 versions of the plants deadly at the use in food. Among them such favourites of gardeners, as buttercups, narcissuses, an oleander, azaleas, a delphinium and a rhododendron.
– Wheat is the "most vyrashchivayeyomy" plant in the world. It grows on all continents, except Antarctica.
– The willow bark from which receive saliyotsilovy acid, was used as boleyoutolyayushchy means since Greeks obnaruzhili its therapeutic property 2500 years ago.