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Of leaves that always flutter

• The telegraph plant of Asia has leaves that flutter constantly, even when there is no breeze.

• The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.

• Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand of them to weigh as much as one grain of wheat.

• The average ear of corn has 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.

• A single coffee tree yields only one pound of roasted, ground coffee annually.

• Bamboo can grow up to three feet in a 24-hour period.

• Oak trees do not have acorns until they are 50 years old.

— Compiled by Gaurav Sood