Did You Know?

1. Did you know that the thorns on cacti are actually modified leaves? Because most cacti are in environments that are hot with direct full sunlight, they don't need big leaves collecting light for food, and the bigger the leaves, the more water a plant loses, cacti usually can't afford to lose the water they have.
2. Did you know that honey is bee vomit?
3. Did you know that the shiny coating (Cuticle) on the needles of pine trees contains a natural pesticide? This is so that seeds falling to close to the parent tree do not grow, if they did, they would all have to share or compete for the nutrients and water.
4. Did you Know Mistletoe is a parasitic plant? A parasitic plant is a plant that for one reason or another is incapable of producing enough food to survive, so they need to attach to another plant, using it's nutrients to compensate for the deficiency.
5. Did you know, like a flower on a plant, a mushroom is a reproductive organ of Mycelium, the vegetative part of fungus, it is usually white and web like and has been recorded to be one of the largest organisms.