The California redwood – coast redwood and giant sequoia – are the tallest and largest living organism in the world.

One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

The Pitcher-plant is a carnivorous plant, a meat eater. Carnivorous plants usually live in nitrogen poor soils. They have ‘learned’ to augment the inadequate nitrogen available in the soil by capturing and consuming insects!

40% of prescripition drugs dispensed in the U.S. have active ingredients derived from plants, animals or microorganisms, many of them from forests.

The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep it from being destroyed by wind.

The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground.

A banana is about 75 percent water.

A single large tree can release up to 400 gallons of water into the atmosphere each day.

Rafflesia flowers attract pollinating flies by looking and smelling like rotten meat.

One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles.

The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it’s first 10 years.

In the 1800’s an Eggplant was known as a “mad apple” and believed to be poisonous.

One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpicks.