> cushion plant In New Zealand, there grows a plant that looks like a cushion made of white sheep's wool. It's called a cushion plant. And sometimes it's called a vegetable sheep. A cushion plant...
The oldest living tree
If trees had birthday parties, there's one tree in the United States that would need more than 4,000 candles on its birthday cake! Trees live much longer than people or animals do. A big oak tree,...
The biggest living things
The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived---bigger than an elephant, bigger than the biggest dinosaur. But even the blue whale isn't the largest living thing on earth. Trees are. And...
Odd and unusual trees
The world is full of unusual trees. One tree has fruits that look like big sausages hanging from its branches. Another tree looks a little like a giant umbrella. Still another tree looks somewhat...
Vampire plants
Some plants live like vampires. They fasten themselves to other plants and suck food and water out of them I When a plant called a dodder sprouts from the ground, it stretches out toward the...
Plants that climb
If a green plant doesn't get enough sunlight, it will die. The best way for a plant to get lots of sunlight is to grow tall. But if a plant with a very thin stem grows too tall, it will just topple...
Plants that live in trees
Do you know there are some kinds of plants that never grow in the ground? They grow high up in trees in tropical forests. There's a good reason for this. In a forest where trees grow tall and close...
Plants that trap insects
In many wet and swampy places there are plants that trap insects! But plants don't "eat." If plants don't "eat," then why do they catch insects? All plants need a salt called a nitrate. It helps...
Plants that can swim!
Chlamydomonas Chlamydomonas is a tiny plant that swims like an animal! > Sometimes, 16 of these tiny plants form a jellylike wheel and live in > it together. If you peeked at a drop of pond...
The baker’s plant
> yeast plants > > Yeast plants are growing in the dough this baker is mixing. The small > photo shows how growing yeast cells look under a microscope. If it weren't for a plant called yeast, we...
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