Plants

A poor girl on her way to church picked a plant that grew by the roadside to decorate the altar on t ...

Birches are among the first trees to inhabit new areas. They cover the northern hemisphere and occur in circumpolar and temperate climates.

Thanks to this, for centuries, companies of spice traders maintained a monopoly on the sale of this luxury good. Even in the Middle Ages, the origin of cinnamon remained a mystery to Europeans.

Fossil representatives of ginkgo are known from numerous fossils, the oldest of which date to about 280 million years ago.The only relic of this group has remained until modern times ginkgo biloba.

In the 12th century, methods for growing these trees were written down in an agricultural manual by ...

The average fruit has a diameter of 2 cm and comes in many colors. The fruit may be white, green, pink, red, or almost black. The fruit contains 2 to 4 pear-shaped seeds with a maximum length of 6 mm.

It can reach 40 cm in diameter and the branches grow upwards.

One of the taller ones is paper birch and the lower ones are dwarf birch. These plants also differ in the size of their leaves, which can be from 5 mm to 15 cm in length.