Plant & Botany Index

Plant Facts:

- 70,000 plant species are utilized for medicine.

- Some plants are carnivores, gaining nutrients by eating various small insects and spiders.

- They can sense gravity and respond positively to it.

- some plants use lures to trick potential pollinators

- The first carrots were purple rather than orange

- Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.

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Aconitum Wolfsbane

16 Mar 2024 10:50

Aconitum; also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. They are native to the Northern hemisphere in Asia, North America, and Europe. they are often large blue, purple, white, yellow, or pink symmetrical flowers. Wolfsbane fares well in moisture retentive soils where they can grow in partial shade.