BOTANY-FACTS-1

VERY INTERSTING FACTS ON BOTANY

• National flower of India
  Lotus (Nelumbium nucifera = Nelumbo speciosum)

• National flower of London Rose
• National fruit of India
  Mango (Mangifera indica)

 

• A plant with only 2 leaves
  Welwitschai mirabilis (a gymnosperm)

• Maiden Hair moss
  Pogonatum

• Maiden hair fern
  Adiantum capillusveneris

• Grasses of sea
  Diatoms

• Children of sea
  Algae

• Forest of sea
  Sea weeds (keips)

• Joker of plant kingdom
  Mycoplasma (PPLO)

• Jewels of plant kingdom
  Desmids (algae)

• A gift of old world to new world
  Wheat (Tritium)

• A gift of new world to old world
  Maize (Zea Mays)

• Oldest cultivated crop
  Barley (Hordeum vulgare)

• Kalpvriksha (Tree of heaven)
  Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)

• First land inhabiting plants Bryophytes

 

• Red Sea
  Due to blue green alga Trichondesmium erythreum
• Most commonly seen fungi
  Basidiomycetes
• Drosophila of plant kingdom
  Neurospora crassa (red/pink Bread mould)

• Guinea pig of microbiology and weed of laboratories
  Aspergillus niger-green mold

• Resupination
  Ovary rotates by 1800 in orchids
• Major source of sugar in world
  Beet roots
• Phytotron
  A device in which plants are grown in controlled conditions.

• Tillandsw usneoids
  Grows on telegraphic wires

• Ermarki and Ranunculus lobatus
  Plants recorded at higher altitude (21000 ft)
• Smallest Angiosperm
  Woiffia arrhiza inch long rootless.

• Smallest flower
  Woiffia microscopica (duck weed) 0. 1 mm
• Smallest seed
  Orchids (weighs 0.004 mg)
• Smallest Gymnosperm
  Zamina pygmea (25 cm tall)

• Smallest acellular oganisms and
  Mycoplasma galliseptium (0.3—0.5 iL)
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• Minimum number of chromosomes in Angiosperms and in an eukaryote
  Haplopappus gracilis 2n = 4

• Smallest Algae
  Chalamydomonas (Green alga)

• Largest Algae
  Macrocvstis (Brown Alga — kelp) upto 60 mt.

• Smallest fungi
  Yeast
• Largest fungi
  Ganoderma (A wood fungus) I mt. Fomes (56 x 37’)

• Smallest bryophyte
  Zoopsis, Ephemerum (Pigmy moss)
• Largest bryophyte
  Dawsonia, Fontinalis (brook moss)

• Smallest pteridophyte
  Azolla

• Largest pteridophyte
  Treefem (Cyathaea) 20 mt. Aisphila (60 feet)

• marine angiosperm
  zostera,Thalassa

• Walking fern
  Adianturn caudatum
• Sun fern
  Pteris

• Aquatic ferns
  Azolla, Marsilea, Salvinia
• Bhojpatra
  Betula utilis — Bark of this plant was used to write manuscript in ancient times.
• Saprophytic angiosperms•
  Wullshcleigellia), Neottia (Bird’s nest orchid), Monotrapa (Indian pipe plant) Carallorhiza etc. absorb humus through fungi

• Red Data Book
  A book containing information of endangered plant and animals

• Green data Book
  A book with list of rare plants growing in protected areas like gardens.
• Coptis
  A stemless herb

• Sulphur shower
  Liberation of pollen grain in large amount by pine trees.
• Killer weed
  Parthenium hysterophorus (called- congress or carrot grass, belongs to family compositae)