Plants & Trees Facts for Kids
Fascinating facts about the plant world
A substance extracted from red seaweed called carrageenan is used to thicken ice cream, chocolate milk, and many other foods.
The lotus flower grows from muddy, murky water but its petals stay perfectly clean because they have a special water-repelling coating.
Wheat is one of the most widely grown crops on Earth and is used to make bread, pasta, and many other foods eaten by billions of people.
Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that attaches itself to tree branches and steals water and nutrients directly from its host tree.
Coffee beans are actually the seeds found inside the red berries of the coffee plant, which grows in tropical regions around the world.
Pitcher plants have deep, cup-shaped leaves filled with a liquid that traps and slowly digests insects that fall in.
The Amazon rainforest produces about 20% of all the oxygen released on land and is sometimes called the 'lungs of the Earth.'
Daffodil bulbs and flowers are poisonous and can make people and animals very ill if eaten, even though they look pretty.
Strawberry plants send out long stems called runners that creep along the ground and grow into brand new strawberry plants.
A mature oak tree can produce up to 70,000 acorns in a single year, though only a tiny fraction will ever grow into new trees.