Lesser known facts:

The banana plant is not a tree.
It is a giant herb belonging to the Musa genus.

The banana is a fruit but botanically, it is a berry.
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Magnolias are an ancient group of flowering plants, scientists say that they evolved over 100 million years ago and were pollinated by beetles before bees became common. Their flowers have tepals instead of separate petals and sepals. After flowering, they produce cone-like fruits with bright red seeds that birds spread, they don't digest the seeds.
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In 1875, Charles Darwin suspected two Saxifraga species, S. rotundifolia and S. umbrosa, might be carnivorous after seeing sticky hairs trap insects. Scientists could not prove it then. In 2026,on the 4th of August, researchers confirmed a different species, S. candelabrum, is carnivorous. It grows on nutrient-poor mountain rocks in China, where sticky hairs trap insects and digestive enzymes break them down, allowing the plant to absorb nutrients. 🌿

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