10 fun facts about leaves

 

Here are 10 leaves fun facts that you should know

1 - Leaves are the most important organ of most vascular plants.

2 - A leaf gets it ' s green color from chlorophyll, a green pigment found in chloroplasts.

3 - Not all plant species have green leaves and can have a wide variety of others color.

4 - Plants can have one of several different types of leaves, like stipules, conifers, sheaths or fronds.

5 - Palma raffia – the owner of the longest leaves in the plant kingdom. In length, they can reach 25 meters.

6 - Animals and insects that eat mostly leaves — such as pandas, caterpillars, giraffes or koalas — are called folivores.

7 - In some plants, leaves can rotate to receive more sunlight, or, conversely, hide from it to reduce evaporation of moisture.

8 - The widest leaves in the world are those of a giant water lily growing on the Amazon River. They can reach two meters in diameter.

9 - Most of the leaves grow on cypress trees, on an old tree there can be up to 50 million. This is hundreds of times more than on some other trees.

10 - The number of different leaf shapes in different plants is so great that scientists do not even try to calculate it.