You can count numbers all around you, from the eight legs on a spider to the one nose on your face. But can you count the stars in the sky or the fish in the Amazon? Find out all about PLANTS in THE BIG COUNTDOWN, including the many different types and species, photosynthesis, flowers, pollination and seeds, how plants grow and how we depend on plants for food and many other products. Discover some amazing facts from the tallest tree to the most poisonous seeds.

The Big Countdown looks at popular topics and investigates the great many numbers that make them fascinating. From the mind-bogglingly large to smallest and most precious, this series helps us understand that it's not just our days that are numbered.

This book is part of a book series called The Big Countdown .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Mark Ruffle studied graphic design and then worked as an art editor for Oxford University Press, before becoming a freelance illustrator and designer. When he's not drawing animals or spaceships, among other things, he enjoys walking his dogs and cycling in the Cotswolds, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Since landing on planet Earth, Paul Rockett has spent much of his time reading up on the adventures of human life, while also experiencing a few of his own. In his quest to find out more about his chosen home planet, Paul has travelled, doodled, eaten a lot of food, plundered dusty libraries and gazed out of windows. Having gathered together a vast amount of fascinating data, it is now his mission to present as much as he can in interesting ways, so that any passing Martian can see how brilliant life is on Earth.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: There are 321, 212 species of plant
• 1: There ten thousand poisonous plants in the world
• 1: 9, 390 known plants are threatened with extinction
• 1: Oxygen is renewed by plants every two thousand years
• 1: A pomegranate can have as many as 1, 370 seeds
• 1: It can take 312 weeks from seed to apple
• 1: There are more than 300 types of honey
• 1: The tallest tree is 115. 54 metres high
• 1: 100 species of moss grow in the Antarctic
• 1: 80-85 cocoa beans in an average chocolate bar
• 1: It takes 14 trees to make one magazine tonne of paper
• 1: The queen of the night blooms for one night every year
• 1: Large numbers and Further information
• 1: Glossary
• 1: Index