Some trees can form communities and are connected below ground, allowing them to share water and nutrition, and even alert one another to attacks by insects.

Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree species. No one knows why.

Two-fifths of all the world’s 64,000 species of trees grow in South America.

There are 380,000 species of plants in the world—and 2,000 more are discovered every year.

African baobab trees manage to survive dry seasons by storing water in their vast trunks. A single tree can store as much as 25,000 gallons of water.

A single saguaro cactus of the American desert, meanwhile, can contain enough water to fill a bathtub 20 times.

Venus fly traps work when a creature lands on them and touches a tiny hair lining inside of the trap’s two hinged leaves. These highly sensitive hairs are properly known as trigger hairs.

The spines on a cactus  are not actually spines-they are modified leaves.