2. In California’s Wheeler Park, there is a Bristlecone pine tree with an estimated age of 5,000 years.

3. An American coast red wood reaches a height of 110 m.

3. The flower of artillery plant measures only 0.35 mm in diameter. It is the smallest ever known flower.

4. Boxwood is so heavy that it does not float on water but sinks.

5. Seaweed is used in the manufacturing of fertilizers, medicines, paint, toothpaste and in icecreams too.

6. The oldest known living seed came from a North American Arctic Lupin. It was found in 1954, buried in frozen silt near Miller Greek in central Yukon-Canada, by a mining engineer named Schmidt. It had been there for 10,000 years. Yet, when scientist planted it, a plant grew which was identical to the modern plant.

7. Coniferous forests of the Northern Russia are the largest in the world.

8. The greatest depth at which plant life has been found is 884 feet.

9. Edible mushrooms grow to their full size within seven days.

10. Tree trunk of the baobab tree in Kenya is so long that some people make their homes with the hollowed out trunks.

11. A cactus plant, only three feet tall may have roots spreading out to a length of ten feet across the desert.

12. Orchid seeds are so small that one million of these would weigh somewhat less than 1 gm.

13. Plants produce oxygen in day time which is ten times more than the carbon dioxide produced at night.