• White flowers tend to be more strongly scented than their coloured kin.
  • Life jackets used to be filled with sunflower stems.
  • The Mount Cook Lily is actually a buttercup.
  • Vanilla comes from the fruit of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.
  • Prince Charles is paid one daffodil a year as rent for his lands on the Island of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall.
  • Pinks are so called not because of their colour but because of the ragged edges, or pinks, on each petal. The colour pink is actually named after the flower.

 

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