*Pineapples were originally tiny and sour! They don't need soil to grow.
*Common cinnamon is actually a poison that can lead to organ failure! True cinnamon is much rarer and super good for you.
*We saw a bird smaller than a huge butterfly (which was about as big as an adult stretched out hand)
*Bananas are in the ginger family
*There is a tree in Malaysia that you can be killed by sitting under it or walking by! It is closely related to the mango tree. There have been only two documented deaths in Malaysia. Sceintists don't understand the chemical reactions that make it so deadly to humans.
*Lemon grass helps with flatulence :)
*Nutmeg is a potent hallucinogen
*some palms only flower once in 10 years. And only Flower once then die. So they are considered annuals.
*the flower Cat Whiskers make really good tea and helps with small kidney stones.
*pandan is a leaf and makes a green colour
*there are over 1,000 kinds of ginger! We were shown a few and told their specific uses. For example, one kind should be eaten with seafood to counteract any gastric problems from the sea, and another kind for eating with red meat, etc.
*black Lilly has three different kinds of leaves on the same plant; one for photosynthesis, one to attract night pollenators, and one to stabalize the plant when bugs, and animals come for pollen.
*Herb painting is not easy (the kids' tour group experiemnted with natural dyes from tumeric, pandan, butterfly pea)
*Citronella is a kind of lemon grass
*Cinnamon and cloves use used to be only of the leaves, not the bark or flower stems as is now.
*Bamboo grows as fast as 75 cm in 24 hours!
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