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 Life Vests used to be filled with sunflower stalks.
The most precious and expensive
spice in the world is saffron. The Saffron filaments, or
threads, are actually the dried stigmas of the saffron flower,
"Crocus Sativus Linneaus". Each flower
contains only three stigmas. These threads must be picked from
each flower by hand, and more than 75,000 of these flowers are
needed to produce just one pound of Saffron filaments, making
it the world's most precious spice.
It takes about 4,000 pounds of
rose petals to distill one ounce of attar of rose (essential
oil of rose).
The smallest orchid is found in
South America and has a flower only one half millimeter in
diameter.
Modern forms of marigolds were
bred from about six of the 30 wild species which are native to
Arizona, Argentina, and Mexico.
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