10 Neat Things Archives

Monday, April 21, 2025

About Elephants

1. Trunk. An elephant’s trunk is kind of like a nose, in that it is used for breathing and smelling

1. Blood turnip. Beets or beetroots, as they are known in the United Kingdom, evolved from the sea beet, a

Chokecherry fruit 1. Not the same. Chokecherries and chokeberries look quite similar to the untrained eye and they both taste

Little landrace shoat 1. What to call it (1). There are more words for the animal that gives you pork

1. Blue impatiens. Impatiens namchabarwensis is a semi-woody, branching, one-foot tall plant with delicate true-blue blooms that was discovered in

1. Lily of the Incas. Deep in South America, in the southern Andes, clumps of richly coloured flowers grew from

1. Names. Earthworms are of many different species. The common one we tend to recognize as an earthworm is Lumbricus

1. Tooth of the lion. The English common name “dandelion” comes from the French dent de lion, meaning tooth of

1. Do bees have noses? Not exactly, but they do detect odour through receptors in their antennae. Various insects

Life wouldn’t be possible without water. We can see this in the garden after a much-needed rainstorm brings plants back