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- The banana tree is not really a tree at all. It is an herb.
- Cherries do not ripen further after harvest.
- Cherries bruise very easy. Handle with care!
- The word cherry comes from the French word, "cerise".
- Check out the Cherry Chocolate Polar O in the Polar Blair's Den Online Store.
- "Cherry" by UFO
- "Cherry" by Amy Winehouse
- "Cherry Baby" by Starz
- "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways
- "Cherry, Cherry" by Neil Diamond
- "Cherry Pie" by Warrant
- "Wild Cherry" by Foghat
- A daisy is a mix of two flowers: a white ray floret and a disk floret.
- The daisy used to be called "day's eye", referring to the sun. Like an eye, the flower opened and closed with the sunrise and sunset.
- Daisy is a popular name for girls in Spain.
- Check out the Daisy Polar O in the Polar
Blair's Den Online Store.
- A sliced onion can help relieve a bee sting.
- A peanut is neither a pea or a nut. It is a legume. Many legumes are beans.
- A pumpkin is really a squash!
- A pumpkin's flower is edible.
- Pumpkins are 90% water.
- Jack O'Lanterns used to be carved from turnips when the tradition started in ancient Europe, but when the tradition was brought to America in the middle 1800s, pumpkins were more easily available than turnips, and much easier to carve.
- Redwood trees can grow to heights of 350 feet! Their bark can be over a foot thick! Despite this, they spring from a seed that is only a sixteenth of an inch long. Talk about your growth spurts!
- A strawberry has, on average, 200 seeds.
- Some superstitious people in Bavaria STILL tie a
basket of strawberries on the horns of their cattle. It's
believed that elves love strawberries, and will bless the cow with an
abundance of milk in return.
- Botanists don't consider the strawberry to be a true berry, because real berries carry their seeds on the inside. Strawberries are the only "berries" to have seeds on the outside.
- Check out the Strawberry Chocolate Blast Polar O in the Polar Blair's Den Online Store.