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Do you know if a flower sleeps at night?
The answer to this question is yes, plants go to sleep at night.
Animal's depend on plants and trees for the air which they breathe, and plants and trees depend on animals for the air which they breathe.
Plants take in carbonic acid, which contains the carbon, from the air. They use the carbon and give off the oxygen, and so they form material for the life of animals. Animals breathe out carbonic acid and so they form material for the life of plants.
We may say that we cannot live without plants, and plants cannot live without us.
When the sun is shining, the plant takes the carbonic acid from the air and gives off the oxygen. When the night comes, the plant stops taking in the carbonic acid; while it is sleeping, it gives off its carbonic acid and takes in the oxygen though in less quantities than by daylight.
A plant takes its food in the day and grows both during the day and during the night.
Pollen is brought to many flowers by insects. Some insects sleep in the day and work at night. These insects visit the night flowers and bring them the pollen which they need.
... that the largest flower is the Rafflesia Arnoldii? It grows in the tropical forest of Sumatra, Indonesia.
It is a parasite plant which looks like a cabbage and consists of a flower without stem or leaves. The flower is more than three feet in diameter and often weighs twelve pounds. It has a most unpleasant smell.
It was first discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
... that a water lily of South America has the largest leaf? It is sometimes forty feet in diameter.
... that violets grow wild in most parts of the world? In our country the violet is a spring flower. It is among the first flowers which bloom when winter has passed.
... if bees take ready-made honey from flowers?
It is a mistake to think that bees get ready-made honey from flowers. Flowers do not contain honey. Honey-bees make honey from materials which they get from the flowers.
