Many people use plants only as decoration of rooms and land plots, without thinking of their properties. Actually scientific, having carried out a huge number of experiments, established that they are allocated with feelings, memory and even intelligence.
The interesting facts about plants
To define properties of many plants, people had to carry out huge amount of time behind observations and also to make not one dozen researches.
The interesting facts about plants:
- In the territory of the amazon, water lilies which have huge leaves, the having 2 meters in the diameter that allows them to hold on itself the child grow.
- Pines have ability to sterilize air, is so proved that 1 hectare of a pine forest for day allocates about 5 kg of flying phytoncides which destroy bacteria and microbes in the atmosphere.
- There are interesting facts about herbs, for example, the first antiseptics and means for decrease in temperature were received from plants. Salicylic acid, for example, was extracted earlier from willow bark.
- In the territory of tropical forests of Asia the large predatory plant which catches birds, mice and other small living beings grows, and then, digests them by means of own enzymes.
- Today grow up a plant a crockery gorlyanka which is used as services, and all thanks to various forms of a plant.
- The following interesting fact about houseplants, so to people who live in territories with the polluted air, for example, near the plants is recommended to grow up the flower called dieffenbachia on the window sill. The thing is that leaves of a plant are capable to purify air from chemical waste.
- On the island of Sumatra the plant with the most disgusting smell – amorfofallus grows, and it smells of rotten fish.