{"id":42562,"key":"Plants","title":"Plants","latest":{"id":1206865,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:00:48Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Thanh Long ở Ninh Thuận.jpg|thumb]]\n\n'''Plants''' are living organisms of the kingdom Plantae. They can be divided in ornamental plants and [[crops]]. Plants can be cultivated [[Agriculture|with]] or [[Container gardening|without land]].\n\n== Uses ==\n\nBesides their initial use (such as for their aesthetic value, human consumption, coloring, medicinal use, and so on), plants can can also be used for other things. Examples include:\n\n* reducing soil evaporation and the providing of shade to other plants and animals\n* work as a ground cover preventing other plants (such as weeds) from growing on that location\n* forming attractive and fragrant flowers and leaves: these can be pleasing to people, and stimulate local biodiversity (attract/maintain pollinators)\n* some plants can do the opposite: the repelling of certain insects and some larger animals\n* some plants act as companion plants: these plants can stimulate the growing of other plants\n* some plants (namely, tall and strong plants, thorny plants) when placed in a row (hedge) can be used to deny (or reduce) access to a space behind it, increasing safety\n* some plants (namely, densely growing plants) when placed in a row (hedge) can be used to act as a [[windbreak]] and/or reduce vision of a space behind it (the latter increasing privacy)\n* enriching the soil, through nitrogen fixation, organic matter or encouraging soil organisms\n* reducing soil erosion\n* generate electricity through microbial activity at the roots ([[Microbial fuel cell|plant-MFC]]).\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Horticulture]]\n* [[Agriculture]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Learn what plants do for our lives and spaces. Appropedia shows their value in food, climate, and daily use.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Nature]]\n[[Category:Plants]]"}