The sensitive plant can move! Its leaves fold up at night and also when touched.

These giant water lilypads can grow up to 2 metres wide, which help the plant win the competition for sunlight. 

Baobab trees can live for over 3,000 years. When they die, they rot inside and suddenly collapse!

Palm oil is used in over 60% of our supermarket products from ice cream and crisps to soaps and lipstick.

No, the fruits of this tree aren’t lemons on steroids, although they are from the citrus family!

Sugar cane sticks were first chewed for their sugary sap 10,000 years ago. Today we eat about 3kg a week each!

This tree is home to over 70 types of insects that live nowhere else on earth, but no monkeys!

There are about 3,000 different types of tea. The flavour depends on where they grow and the type of bush.

Arabica coffee dominates the world market and is regarded by most people as producing the highest quality beans.

The Ginkgo biloba is one of the world's oldest living tree species and was around 350 million years ago.