Nature Trivia | 100 facts & trivia about plants and flowers (part 2)

Flowers and plants are essential for the environment. and some people love them so much that they decorate their personal space with them.

In case you wanna know more about the flowers and plants you can read part 1. If you already have read we can move on and find out even more interesting things about them!

1. Jasmines are preferred for their distinctive fragrance.
2. A number of unrelated plants contain the word “Jasmine” in their common names.
3. Jasmine is a really popular name for girls as well.
4. Jasmine is the name of a Disney princess as well.
5. Jasmine has often 5 or 6 lobes.
6. Flowering happens during the summer or spring.
7. Its fragrance is often released during the night.
8. Jasmine usually bears white flowers.
9. It is not poisonous, despite the fact many people believe so.
10. From jasmine’s flower, you can make medicines.
11. Jasmines grow well in moist, well-drained, sandy loam to clayey garden soil.
12. Jasmine can live from 15 up to 20 years in the wild.
13. Sometimes its flowers can be yellow.
14. The main jasmine’s pollinators are the bees and the butterflies.
15. The jasmine’s fruits are… berries!
16. They actually turn black when ripe.
17. Many people believe that have originated in the Himalayas in Western China.
18. Jasmine is known in India as the “Queen of the Night”.
19. In China, jasmine is a symbol of feminine sweetness and beauty.
20. In religious ceremonies it represents purity.
21. There is also a jasmine tea.
22. Jasmine oil is a type of essential oil delivered from the plant.
23. Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants.
24. It belongs to the amaryllis family named Amaryllidaceae.
25. Narcissus were well known in ancient civilization, both medicinally and botanically.
26. There are about 17 narcissus types that gardeners commonly plant.
27. They are popular in cold regions.
28. Popular varieties include Mount Hood, Dutch Master, and Goblet.
29. The petals are circular and may be smooth or ruffled.
30. In England, this flower is associated with Lent.
31. Most European countries regard the narcissus flower as a symbol of rebirth and hope.
32. This happens because the flowers grow in spring.
33. Welsh people regard wild daffodil as a symbol of luck.
34. Welsh people believe that anyone who finds the first daffodil in spring will get one year of luck.
35. In China, people who grow daffodils during the New Year are said to be lucky.
36. Narcissus grows in a water medium as well.
37. It is called narcissus because its bulb houses a toxic substance.
38. The ancient Greek word ‘narcissus’ means ‘numbness’.
39. It is a reference to its narcotic nature.
40. Narcissus was also a mythological person.
41. Daffodils blooms can last up to three weeks.
42. They are able to live that much only when temperatures remain between 45 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
43. Plural form of narcissus is Narcissi or narcissuses or narcissus.
44. The derivation of the Latin narcissus is unknown but may be connected with hell.
45. Narcissus in greek means selfish.
46. The species are native to southern Europe and North Africa with a center of diversity in the Western Mediterranean.
47. They are quite popular in the Iberic peninsula.
48. Daisies are very common in Europe.
49. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.
50. Daisy is 2 flowers in one.
51. The large outer petals make up one flower.
52. The cluster of tiny petals makes another one.
53. Daisies can live in both wet and dry climates.
54. Daisy is a herbaceous plant.
55. It can grow from 7cm to 1.2 meters.
56. Daisy is attached to the ground via rhizome.
57. The daisy flower stalks are generally longer than the leaves.
58. An alternative name for its center is disk florets.
59. Ray florets from the outer part of the flower.
60. Each daisy’s ray is an individual flower.
61. Bees are the primary pollinators for the daisies.
62. When a bee lands on a daisy flower, it seeks out nectar.
63. Some daisy species live only for one year.
64. Some others live for 2 years.
65. The color of the flower depends on the species.
66. Daisies’ color varies: they can be purple, pink, red, etc
67. One of the most popular daisy species is the Marguerite daisy.
68. Daisy symbolizes purity, and patience, and simplicity.
69. In Christianity daisy is a sacred symbol of the Virgin Mary.
70. Daisy as a word is originated from the Old English “daes age”.
71. Daisies are known from the childish game “He loves me, he loves me not”.
72. Sunflower is the only flower with flower in its name!
73. Its scientific name is Helianthus.
74. Sunflowers were “born” to America and more specifically to North America.
75. Their “birthdate” was around 3000BC
76. When America was conquered by Spanish, sunflowers were exported in Europe by them.
77. Helia stands for Sun and Anthus for Flower.
78. Sunflowers symbolize faith, loyalty, and adoration.
79. Sunflowers follow the movement of the sun across the sky from east to west and that makes them really connected to the sun as their name suggests.
80. This process is known as heliotropism.
81. Mature sunflowers usually face east.
82. There are more than 60 varieties of sunflowers that exist around the world.
83. Some of these varieties have striped petals.
84. In case you cut a sunflower it will last in a vase from 5-12 days., but if you take care of them, they can last a bit longer.
85. In 2012, U.S. astronaut Don Pettit brought along a few companions to the International Space Station: sunflower seeds.
86. In Mexico, they are considered to heal chest pain.
87. Some other American tribes agree on that!
88. Each sunflower’s head is made of smaller flowers.
89. Flowers planted too close together will compete and not blossom to their full potential.
90. Sunflowers have sunflower oil, that is low-fat.
91. Tsar Peter the Great was so excited by the sunflowers he saw in the Netherlands, so he brought them back to Russia.
92. The largest sunflower is 30 feet and 1 inch.
93. They can be used as scrubbing buds.
94. The petals we see around the outside are called ray florets and can’t be reproduced.
95. Tulips in the 1600s were more valuable than most people’s homes, and cost almost 10 times what an average working-class man earned in a year.
96. During World War II, tulips and tulip bread were often eaten by those who couldn’t afford other foods.
97. Holland is known as the country of tulips. At one point in Holland’s history, tulips were its fourth-biggest export, behind cheese, gin, and herring.
98. Tulips have been cultivated in every color except for classic blue.
99. Blue tulips exist, but they have a purplish tint.
100. New varieties of tulips are regularly created, but it takes each one at least 20 years to go from the beginning stages of cultivation to the market.