plants

• Some plants are carnivores, gaining nutrients by eating various small insects and spiders. A well known example of a carnivorous plant is the Venus Flytrap.

• Bamboo can be a fast growing plant, some types can grow almost a meter (3.28 feet) in just one day!

• Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food.

• Onions might taste good but they can be painful to chop. A gas is released when you cut onions that irritates you eyes, the tears you produce while this happens are your body’s way of washing it from your eyes.

• In the agricultural industry, to ensure crops of food grow well water is often added to soil in the form of irrigation.

• Plant matter found at the bottom of areas with water such as swamps can eventually turn into coal due to a process called metamorphosis (changing form).

• There are over 200,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time.

• Poison ivy produces a skin irritant called urushiol. Touching poison ivy will cause an allergic reaction, usually in the form of an itchy rash on the skin.