Plants Facts Generator

• [Plants fact 1]  Mandrake, a root of a plant that sometimes resembles a human has long been steeped in the occult and medieval lore. The root was believed to bear hallucinogenic and narcotic properties and was used in the treatment of headaches, earaches, gout, and insanity to name a few.

  Fiction, Plants source

• [Plants fact 2]  The flavors of spearmint and caraway are chiral molecules. They have the exact same molecular composition, but their orientation (left or right) makes them taste and smell different from one another.

  Plants, Science source

• [Plants fact 3]  In Interstellar, they actually planted hundreds of acres of corn just for the sake of the movie and it ultimately cost nothing because they made all of the money back when they sold the crop.

  Movies, Plants source

• [Plants fact 4]  Trees have a maximum height of 426 feet and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity.

  Plants, Science source

• [Plants fact 5]  The modern Christmas tree originated in western Germany. They combined the Adam and Eve idea of the “paradise tree" with various Christ symbols (like candles, figurines, and stars). By the 16th century, the Christmas pyramid and the paradise tree had merged, becoming the Christmas tree.

  Festival, Plants source

• [Plants fact 6]  Tansy plant was used during the middle ages for abortions.

  Plants source

• [Plants fact 7]  There is an underground garden in Fresno, California that is meant to mimic Greece. Baldassare Forestiere spent 40 years hand digging this 10-acre underground garden paradise beneath the hot dry Fresno hardpan, with different microclimates and grafted multiple-fruit trees growing through holes in the ceiling, which are still thriving 90 years later. It's open for visitors.

  Places, Plants source

• [Plants fact 8]  A study showed that plants have the potential to store memory. A plant species that would close up when touched was repeatedly dropped. At first, the plants closed on every drop but over time remained open because the drops did not harm them. They retained this memory even a month later.

  Plants, Science source

• [Plants fact 9]  When Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend, he noticed that one of the flowers was extremely long and he bet some kind of moth with a really long mouth must exist to pollinate it. A few years later Morgan's sphinx moth was discovered which had a really long proboscis.

  Misc, Plants source

• [Plants fact 10]  During Hiroshima, the Gingko trees that were growing 1 to 2 km from the explosion of the atomic bomb survived the blast and quickly became healthy again. Those trees were some of the few living things that survived and are still alive today.

  Disaster, Plants source

New Plants Facts Generator

About Plants Facts Generator