A bolt of lightning is about one inch wide but can be miles long.

Trees growing on slopes develop asymmetric root systems and denser wood on the downhill side for stability.

A single colony of leafcutter ants can strip an entire tree of leaves overnight.

Titan arum, the corpse flower, has the largest unbranched inflorescence (flower cluster) of any plant.

Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.

Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Pompeii was buried so quickly by volcanic ash in 79 AD that many victims were preserved mid-action.

The rainbow eucalyptus tree naturally sheds bark in patches, revealing bright green, blue, purple, and orange layers beneath.

Cacao trees grow their pods directly from their trunk and major branches, not from small branches.