Plants 1
1. Which plant, known as the first aid plant, is used in herbal medicine and in face creams?
Aloe Vera
2. Which plant takes its name from the Italian phrase for Beautiful woman?
Bella Donna
3. Narcissus is the botanical name for which spring flower?
Daffodil
4. What is the green pigment found in plants that allows them to gain energy from light?
Chlorophyll
5. Salvia is the genus name for what useful plant, associated with wisdom?
Sage
6. Butterfly bush is another name for which common flowering plant?
Buddleia
7. Pukeweed and vomitwort are other names for which ornamental plant beginning with L?
Lobelia
8. Which plant is attacked by the boll weevil?
Cotton
9. Salix Babylonica is the Latin name for which sad tree?
Weeping willow
10. Vitis is the Latin name for which fruit-bearing plant?
Grape
Plants 2
1. What type of nut does cyanide apparently smell like?
Almonds
2. What weed is named from the French 'lion's tooth'?
Dandelion
3. Belladonna is a plant that causes hallucinations but how else is it known?
Deadly nightshade
4. The name of which flower means “noble white” when translated?
Edelweiss
5. Attar is a perfume made from what flower?
Roses
6. David Austin breeds and writes about what type of plants?
Roses
7. What do we Brits love to get from the plant Camellia Sinensis?
Tea
8. The wood from which prickly tree is traditionally used for making white chess pieces?
Holly
9. What is the practice of training shrubs and trees to grow flat against a wall or fence?
Espalier
10. The stinking rose is another name for which edible plant?
Garlic
Plants 3
1. Which scary sounding plant is used as the active ingredient in haemorrhoid creams?!
Witch hazel
2. How is the plant, related to Christmas, with the latin name Ilex better known to us?
Holly
3. In plant photosynthesis, chlorophyll absorbs and converts what into energy?
Light
4. Which flower do you get Saffron from?
Crocus
5. What evaporated milk brand shares its name with a flower?
Carnation
6. Onions and garlic belong to which family of plants?
Allium
7. The Death Cap is the most poisonous variety of what plant?
Mushroom
8. What is the national flower of India?
Lotus
9. What plant provides the raw material for linen?
Flax
10. What is the more common name for the 'Lent Lily' which appears in spring?
Daffodil
Trees
1. Which malaria treatment was originally obtained from the Cinchona tree and was first used in tonic water (and gin) by British officers in India?
Quinine
2. Which part of a tree is used to make cork?
The Bark
3. Branches of which tree appear on the UN flag?
Olive
4. The Prunus dulcis gives us what kind of nut, used widely in desserts?
Almond
5. Originally from Australia, oil from the melaleuca tree is better known as what medicinal oil?
Tea-tree
6. What term is given to those trees that lose their leaves in autumn?
Deciduous
7. Quercus is the Latin for what tree, the most common in the UK?
Oak
8. Which tree's leaves are the symbol of The National Trust?
Oak
9. Turpentine comes from the resin of what type of tree?
Pine
10. What colour are the berries from the rowan tree?
Red