In this post, you will explore facts about tree you just maybe have never heard of. Well, some of them are obvious and you'll know them right off the bat. In this post, you will grow like a tree in knowledge and afterwords, you may end up lying down FOR-REST. Can you BE-LEAF the facts? The last thing I need to say is ENJOY!!!
#1 One out of every four medicines are derived from trees and plants.
#2 Seventy percent of animals depend on forests for their home.
#3 Thanks to our efforts, we have twenty percent more trees then we had forty years ago.
#4 A single tree can absorb ten pounds of carbon dioxide a year. Imagine how much carbon dioxide one trillion trees could absorb.
#5 Fifty percent of the world’s plants and animals live in rainforests, but rainforests only cover two percent of the Earth.
#6 About eighty percent of the Earth’s original forests have been cleared or destroyed.
#7 More than one hundred people are killed by trees every year.
#8 The average person will use seven hundred pounds of paper yearly. Think of all the trees cut down for a single human being.
#9 In one hundred years, there may be no rainforests.
#10 Some trees emit chemicals that attract enemies of their enemies.
#11 Trees in a forest can "talk" and share nutrients through an underground internet built by soil fungi.
#12 A living tree is 99% dead. The only live parts of a tree are the leaves, buds, root tips, and cambium—the thin green layer just under the bark, which transports food and water. All of the wood built up in the previous years of a tree’s life is composed of dead cells.
#13 There are are 3.04 trillion trees on Earth, or about 422 for each person.
#14 A giant sequoia can drink up to five hundred gallons of water every single day.
#15 According to the botanical definition, palms are not trees but large, woody herbs.
#16 Did you know? Magnolia Tree Flowers are edible.
#17 The locations of the world’s tallest and oldest trees are kept top secret to avoid tourist crowds damaging them and their surroundings.
#18 There are Eucalyptus trees in Hawaii with natural rainbow-colored barks.
#19 Six ginkgo trees survived the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and live on to this day. The survivor closest to the blast was less than a mile from Ground Zero.
