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COOL EARTH FACTS

• A sunflower might look like one big flower, but its head is actually hundreds of tiny flowers (called florets) which become seeds• Rhubarb is a vegetable, avocados and pumpkins are fruits, a pineapple is not an apple but a berry, and peanuts are not a nut, but a legume.• Each strawberry has about 200 seeds, and it is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside.• A herb is from the leaf of a plant. A spice is from the seed, bark, root, berry or bulb of a plant.• Fig flowers are carnivorous – the flower traps the wasp that pollinates it, then digests it.