Plants & Trees Facts for Kids
Fascinating facts about the plant world
The strangler fig starts life as a seed on another tree and slowly wraps its roots around the host tree, eventually surrounding it completely.
A pineapple plant takes about two years to produce just one fruit, and each plant usually only produces one pineapple at a time.
Flowers use bright colours and sweet smells to attract bees, butterflies, and birds, which help carry pollen from flower to flower.
The bristlecone pine is the world's oldest living tree, with the oldest known specimen being over 5,000 years old.
Poison ivy plants produce an oil called urushiol that causes a very itchy, blistering rash if it touches your skin.
Broccoli is actually a cluster of tiny flower buds — if you left it in the garden long enough, each green bump would open into a yellow flower.
Willow bark has been used as medicine for thousands of years because it contains a natural pain-relieving compound similar to aspirin.
Maple tree seeds are shaped like wings and spin like tiny helicopters as they fall, helping them float away from the parent tree.
Bee orchids have flowers that look and smell exactly like a female bee, which tricks male bees into trying to mate with them, spreading pollen.
The thick gel inside aloe vera leaves has been used for thousands of years to soothe sunburns and skin irritations.