Fun Facts
Plants are amazing - they come in all different sizes, shapes and colours. Here are some great facts.
The biggest seed in the world is from the coco-de-mer, in the Seychelles. They can weigh up to 18 kilos and they look just like a human bottom. We’ve got one in the Humid Tropics Biome.
Did you know that Bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world, couple of feet in twenty four hours.
Indigo, the dye that turns your jeans blue is actually yellow until it touches air.
Experienced tea pickers can collect the average weight of a ten year old in one day.
Amazonian Indians used to take the latex from the rubber tree and paint it on their legs and feet – the first form of wellies.
Did you know that the Durian fruit smells so bad it has been banned in a number of hotels, bars and airports.
This is really interesting - bananas don’t grow on trees... the plant is a herb that can grow up to 6 meters high.
Did you know that recyling just one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a TV for one and a half hours?
The total waste produced in the UK last year – that’s 400 million tons – would fill 74 Eden Projects!
In just one year we fill enough household dustbins to reach from the earth to the moon. That’s a lot of rubbish.
One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
Did you know that there are 31 different metals and minerals in a computer.
Did you know that Colorado Indians use the red dye from the rainforest tree, Bixa orellana, as a hair dye. We use it to colour cheese!
Bananas are the UK’s most popular fruit, in the UK we each eat, on average, 130 bananas a year.
