- If you knew all of these fun facts, you would have great knowledge of things plants.
These fun facts about gardening may shock you. Like did you know that rhubarb is a vegetable?
- Did you know that vanilla and corn have something in common? The vanilla flavoring comes from an orchid pod called Vanilla planifolia. The pods are called vanilla beans but in reality they are more closely related to corn then they are to green beans.
- Pineapples come from the bromeliad family and are the only edible member of the group. European explorers thought the fruit looked like a pinecone and an apple and that’s where the fruit got its name.
- Botanically, pumpkins and avocados are fruit because they have plant seeds.
- Rhubarb is a vegetable. Did you know this as one of the fun facts about
gardening? - Poinsettia were brought to America from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in 1825 and that’s why they have the name they do.
- There are small pockets of air inside cranberries, meaning they bounce and float in water.
- The largest flower in the world is also the stinkiest flower. It’s called the titan arum or Amorphophallus titanium and it’s the largest unbranched flower in the world, reaching up to 4.5m tall. It smells like rotting meat and this is sometimes referred to as the corpse flower.
- Rafflesia is another plant that smells like rotting meat and it comes from the rainforests of Sumatra. They developed the scent so they could be pollinated by flies.
- The oleander or Nerium oleander, a beautiful Mediterranean-native flower is entirely poisoning. Ingesting this plant can cause gastrointestinal, cardiac and central nervous system problems and even be fatal. Dang, this is quite the facts on the list of fun facts about gardening.
- Angiosperm is the scientific name for flowering plants and refers to the seeds being borne in capsules or fruits.
- Pines, spruces, firs, junipers, larches, cycads, and ginkgoes are all non-
flowering plants called gymnosperms. - If you squeeze the sides of the snapdragon flower, the “dragon’s” mouth will appear to open and close.
- Nectarines and peaches are different because nectarines don’t have fuzzy skin. However, if you were to graft a peach branch onto a nectarine tree, or vice versa, you can have both types of fruit on the same tree.
- The average strawberry has 200 seeds and is the only fruit with seeds on the outside.
- Chilling an onion and cutting the root is said to reduce tears when cutting onions. This isn’t so much one of the fun facts about gardening as much as a post gardening produce preparing fact.
- The Ginkgo biloba is the oldest living tree species and dates back to 250 million years ago.
- Dawn redwood trees or Metasequoia glyptostroboides are ancient trees that have been around for over 150 million years.
- Trees are the longest living organisms that exist on Earth.
- Peanuts are legumes like beans and lentils. They have the most protein, niacin, folate and phytosterols than any nut.
How many of these fun facts about gardening did you know? Tell me about it in the comments!