Fascinating Facts about Flowers

Flowers are one of the best ways to express your feelings and love towards your loved one. In many countries, there are symbols and meanings associated with flowers. Flowers are not just limited to decorate your house, but they also have some medicinal attributes. There are several interesting and fascinating facts about flowers.

Some of them are:

• There are more than 250,000 species of flowering plants in the world.
• Titan Arum is the world’s largest flower. It can weigh up to 15 lb and is almost 10 feet in height. Due to its horrible smell of rotten flesh, it is also known as corpse flower.
• White flowers tend to be more strongly scented.
• The daisy got its name because the yellow center resembles the sun. It was commonly known as the “day’s eye” and over time, was eventually called daisy.
• In most recipes, onions are replaceable with tulip bulbs.
• In earlier times the juice from bluebell flowers was used to make glue.
• Moon flowers bloom at night, closing during the day.
• Angelica was used in Europe for hundreds of years as a cure for everything from the bubonic plague to indigestion. It was thought to ward off evil spirits.
• Bamboos produce flowers once every few years. And when they do, all flowers of the same species bloom at exactly the same time.
• Back in the 1600′s in Holland, tulip bulbs were more valuable than gold. Tulips lifespan is very short, being 3 to 7 days. Tulips can grow at a rate of 1 inch per day even after being cut. Tulips are the only flower that continues to grow after it has been cut.
• The lotus was considered a sacred flower by ancient Egyptians, and was used in burial rituals. This flower blooms in rivers and damp wetlands, but may lie dormant for years during times of drought, only to rise again with the return of water. Egyptians viewed it as a symbol of resurrection and eternal life.
• Stamens of lotus are dried to produce fragrant teas while lotus seeds or nuts can be eaten either raw or popped like popcorn. Lotus seed paste is used in many pastry, cake and pudding recipes.
• Dandelions look like weeds, but the flowers and leaves are a good source of vitamins A and C, iron, calcium and potassium. Dandelion’s petals are used in making dandelion wine while its roasted roots are used as a caffeine free dandelion coffee.
• Sunflower was a symbol of spiritual church due to its property of turning towards the sun as “spiritualism turns toward the light of truth”. Turning towards the sun is “heliotropism”. Sunflower stems were used to fill lifejackets before the advent of modern materials.
• Daffodils are cultivated for commercial use for making galantamine, a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Two thousand roses produce one gram of rose oil. In Chinese herbal medicine, some species of rose are used to treat stomach problems.
• In France and francophone cultures, carnations stand for bad luck and misfortune.
• Madonna lily, white with yellow stamens is one of the oldest lilies dating 3000 years back. Madonna lily was used in the 17th century for treatment of snakebites and sore muscles.
• Orchids do not need soil to grow-they get all of their nutrients from the air.
• Sunflowers produce toxic substances that kill plants around them.
• Chrysanthemums are associated with funerals in Malta and are considered unlucky.
• The spice, saffron, comes from a type of crocus flower.

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