Interesting facts about flowers

 - Flower is the most popular gift.
 - If you wish to give a woman a bouquet of flowers and do not know her tastes, roses will always save you.
 - Many men also like to receive flowers, but rarely admit it.

 - You can give flowers with long stems for men.
 - The undisputed world's smallest flowering plants belong to the genus Wolffia, minute rootless plants of the duckweed family. The diameter of its leaves is only up to 1,2 mm.
 - The first plant that flowered in space with the absence of gravity - Arabidopsis. A flower was grown in 1982 on the board of Soviet space station Salyut-7.

 - The wild fig in South Africa has the longest roots (120m).
 - The World's Largest Rose Tree Lady Banksia is situated in Tombstone, AZ, USA. The tree has a trunk thickness of 101 cm and a height of 2,74 m.
 - Puya raimondii is the most rare blooming flower, grows in the Andes, flowers emerge after about 150.
 - The most long known flower to man is Iris. On Crete Island is a fresco depicting irises, the age of which is about 4000 years.

 - Pion owes its name from the legendary doctor Peony, who healed gods and people from wounds received in battle.

 - One of the most interesting names among the flowers is Forget-Me-Not. It grows practically everywhere and the most interesting is the fact that everywhere it has the same name: “Vergimeinnicht” - in Germany, “ne-m'oubliez-pas” - in France and so on. According to the legend - Forget-Me-Not has grown with tears of blue-eyed Egle, who was separated with her fiance shepherd Likasi.

 - Taboo flower is chrysanthemum, the imperial flower in Japan, where one of the highest awards of the country is the Order of the Chrysanthemum.

  Tulips haven’t ever grown in Holland; their seeds were brought there from Turkey.