International Plant Appreciation Day

13/04/2014 14:32

                            

International Plant Appreciation Day takes place on April 13, 2014. Plants are living multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts and mosses, as well as, depending on definition, the green algae.

Much of human nutrition depends on land plants, either directly or indirectly. Human nutrition depends to a large extent on cereals, especially maize (or corn), wheat and rice. Other staple crops include potato, cassava, and legumes. Human food also includes vegetables, spices, and certain fruits, nuts, herbs, and edible flowers. Beverages produced from plants include coffee, tea, wine, beer and alcohol.

They provide Oxygen for our respiration, modify temperatures, reduce wind, abate noise, provide privacy, and prevent soil erosion. They also used for making furniture, clothes, paper, medicines and many more.

 

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