10 stunning facts about trees

Trees surround us from childhood. We begin to study them even in kindergarten, school collect herbarium rustling of autumn leaves ... It seems that we know all about the trees.

But she learned editors Website , the trees have their surprises!

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1. on the Curonian Spit, in the Kaliningrad region, has is a unique place, which is called "The Dancing Forest" or "Drunken Forest»
2. In Ceylon ironwood still "not like other people", new leaves are yellow, pink or red color, and then green.

3. The spice cinnamon - it's not the seeds, leaves and roots of some plants, namely Powdered bark of a tree that grows in Sri Lanka and southern India.

4. tree Copaifera langsdorffii, found in the tropical forests of Brazil comprises a resin that can be directly used as a diesel fuel. One tree gives about 50 liters of fuel per year. Large-scale cultivation of it for these purposes is not profitable, but it is private farmers can cover their needs from the garden of plants.

5. In the language of Mi'kmaq Indians some trees are named according to the sound, which publishes the wind blowing through them in the fall an hour after sunset. And with the change of the sound changes and the names of trees.

6. in Geneva has the 2nd century a tradition of a special decree to announce the coming of spring time, when the first blooms on a piece of "official chestnut", growing under the windows of the building of the cantonal government
7. The Latin word codex meant "a piece of wood». It is on wooden plates, lubricated with wax, the first books were made in the usual format, rather than in the form of a scroll. Later, instead of wood for the Romans began to use the codes of parchment. In the 3rd century in the form of a code it was published collection of imperial constitutions. Today in the Russian language the word "code" is used specifically for names of legal codes.

8. Barbados Island got its name from the Portuguese explorer Pedro Campos, who saw a lot of growing here fig trees entwined with epiphytes like beards. Barbados - in Portuguese "the bearded».

9. Tortoiseshell consists of flaps, each of which grow annual concentric rings. According to him, like tree rings, we can determine the age of the turtle.

10. Bengali ficus tree is particularly life-form called the banyan. In large horizontal branches formed a mature tree aerial roots growing down. Grow to the ground, they take root in it and become new trunks. So banyan tree can grow on an area of ​​several acres.



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