| Caffeine is a pick-me-up found in tea and coffee plants | Medicines |
| The painkiller aspirin comes from the willow tree | |
| Cocaine is used as an anaesthetic. It comes from the coca plant | |
| Digitalis is a heart drug which we get from the foxglove | |
| Morphine is the strongest painkiller and it comes from the poppy | |
| The biggest flower grows to over a metre wide | Largest |
| The largest seed is the "double coconut" | |
| The tallest plant is the sequoia. It can get up to 85 metres tall | |
| The widest tree is a kind of cypress that grows in Mexico | |
| The world's largest vegetable is the pumpkin | |
| The world’s smallest flowering plant is the watermeal, a type of duckweed | Smallest |
| The smallest species of tree is the dwarf willow | |
| The smallest species of cactus is blossfeldia liliputana | |
| The smallest fruit comes from the watermeal too | |
| The smallest fern is less than 1 cm in size | |
| Apple seeds contain the lethal poison cyanide | Toxic |
| One leaf of Oleander can be enough to kill you | |
| Belladonna (beautiful lady) is also known as deadly nightshade | |
| Castor oil is good for us, but the plant it is from can cause internal bleeding | |
| Common in gardens, daffodils are poisonous | |
| Mosses have been on Earth the longest - 470 million years or so | Oldest |
| A seagrass meadow off Ibiza is 100,000 years old | |
| The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is over 5,000 years old | |
| The UK's oldest tree is a yew in Scotland. It's thousands of years old | |
| The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is at least 1,000 years old | |
| In 17th Century Holland tulips were more valuable than gold | Flowers |
| The first flowers appeared on Earth 125 million years ago | |
| Sunflowers move throughout the day so they are always facing the sun | |
| As well as sunflowers, there are moonflowers which only bloom at night | |
| The luxury spice, saffron, comes from the crocus flower | |
| There are about 600 species of carnivorous plant | Carnivores |
| The Venus’ flytrap is the most famous meat-eating plant | |
| Victims of the pitcher plant fall into a pool of digestive juices | |
| Most carnivorous plants eat insects but some eat reptiles and mammals | |
| The oldest known carnivorous plant was around about 47 million years ago | |
| A quarter of all plants on Earth are grasses | Grass |
| Grasses grow on every continent - even Antarctica | |
| Grasses, with their densely packed roots, help to prevent soil erosion | |
| The tallest grass is bamboo. It can grow up to 45 metres high! | |
| Many of the foods we eat (bread, cereal, rice etc.) come from grasses | |
| A vegetable is any part of a plant that is eaten but is not fruit or seed | Vegetables |
| A tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable | |
| Almost 400 million tonnes of potatoes are grown each year | |
| Onions make us cry because they contain sulphur compounds | |
| Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and sprouts are all the same species | |
| Weeds are any plants that people do not want to grow | Weeds |
| Many weeds are edible. Dandelions and nettles can both be eaten | |
| The most successful weeds are ones that produce a lot of seeds | |
| The thistle is a weed, but it helped the Scots to defeat the Vikings | |
| Velcro was inspired by the weed burdock | |
