Plants & Trees Facts for Kids
Fascinating facts about the plant world
Some seeds can stay dormant for hundreds of years and still sprout — scientists grew a date palm from a 2,000-year-old seed.
You can tell how old a tree is by counting the rings inside its trunk — each ring represents one year of growth.
A tomato is technically a fruit, not a vegetable, because it develops from the flower of the plant and contains seeds.
The giant Amazon water lily has leaves so large and strong that a small child could sit on one without sinking.
Mushrooms are not plants — they belong to their own kingdom called Fungi and cannot make their own food from sunlight.
Tropical rainforests cover only about 6% of Earth's surface but are home to more than half of the world's plant and animal species.
Pine cones open their scales in dry, warm weather to release seeds and close them when it is wet to protect the seeds inside.
Stinging nettles have thousands of tiny hollow hairs on their leaves that act like needles and inject a stinging liquid into skin.
Almost all the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was produced by plants and tiny plant-like organisms over billions of years.
Ancient bluebell woodlands in the UK can take hundreds of years to develop and are considered a sign of very old forest.