Plants

Tuesday, 3 February 2026
21 facts about olives
21 facts about olives
"Where the olive refuses to grow, there the Mediterranean world ends"
It is not known exactly when and where the first olive tree, characteristic of the Mediterranean region, grew. Paleobotanists claim that wild olives g ...

Did you know?

Jerusalem artichoke
One plant produces from several to dozens of tubers of different sizes.
They are 7-10 cm long and 3-6 cm thick. They are often elongated and uneven, somewhat resemble the a ...
Pomegranate
A pomegranate proper is a shrub or a small tree.
Its height ranges from 3 to 5 meters. It has many thorny branches and is long-lived–some specimens i ...
Kale
It is a good source of calcium and potassium.
Stinging nettle
Stinging nettle leaves and stems contain flavonoids, organic acids including formic and acetic acids, beta-carotene, vitamins A, B, B5, C, K, mineral salts - especially iron, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium, chlorophyll, acetylcholine, tannins, beta-sitosterol, enzymes, silicon and calcium compounds, acids: linoleic, linolenic, stearic, palmitic and oleic, almost all known amino acids.
Turmeric
It also has a positive effect on the eyes.
Research is ongoing into the effects of turmeric on the treatment of conjunctivitis, dry eye syndrome and glaucoma.
Forget-me-not
It is a widespread plant, common in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.
Carrot
Portuguese make jams from carrots.
Corpse flower
Amorphophallus titanum is endemic to western Sumatra.
It’s an island in southeast Asia, western Indonesia. Titan arum grows in rainforests on limestone hills.
Birch
These are monoecious and wind-pollinated plants.
This means that one individual has both male and female inflorescences. Male flowers bloom in autumn ...
Broad beans
Broad beans were known and cultivated ten thousand years BC in Mesopotamia, Syria, Phoenicia and then in Egypt and Rome.