Did You Know?
Interesting
things you might not know...
The largest single flower is the Rafflesia
or "corpse flower". They are
generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.
The world's tallest grass, which has sometimes grown 130 feet or more, is bamboo.
Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
Aphids are born pregnant and can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
The discharge a snail produces is a protective carpet; it is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
A honeybee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillary ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing.
Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
Butterflies taste with their feet and smell with their antennas.
The monarch butterfly can cover 80 miles a day when migrating.
