Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world.
Some bamboo can grow almost 1 metre taller in just one day. If you watched closely, you could nearly see it shoot up.
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The rafflesia has the biggest single flower on Earth.
One flower can grow as wide as a car tyre, about 1 metre across. It smells stinky, which helps it attract bugs.
One little seed can grow into a whole new plant.
A seed holds a tiny baby plant inside. With water, sunlight, and soil, it can grow big and strong.
Some flowers close their petals at night.
When the Sun goes down, these flowers gently fold up. In the morning they open again to catch the sunshine.
Bees help flowers make seeds by carrying pollen.
When a bee visits a flower, yellow pollen sticks to its body. It carries the pollen to the next flower and helps new seeds grow.
Leaves are green because of something called chlorophyll.
Chlorophyll helps a plant turn sunlight into food. It also gives leaves their pretty green colour.
Plants drink water through their roots in the ground.
Roots reach down into the soil and soak up water. The water travels up the stem to feed the whole plant.
Sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky.
Young sunflowers slowly turn their heads from east to west during the day to catch the most sunlight, then swing back at night. This is called heliotropism. Once fully grown, they usually settle facing east.