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Food We Get from Plants

Plants are very useful to us. We get a large KEY CONCEPTS

number of useful products such as oil, spices,
• Types of plants
medicines and other edible things from
• Parts of plants we eat
diff erent types of plants.
• Other edible plant products
Let’s learn about the diff erent types of plants

and their edible parts.

Types of Plants

Plants diff er from each other based on their size and the type of stem they have.
Some plants are big and strong while some are small and weak. Plants are broadly
classifi ed into trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and creepers.

Trees are tall and strong plants that can live for many Did You Know!

years. They have a thick main woody stem called trunk. The tree trunk is covered
with bark that protects it
From the trunk, many branches grow that usually bear
from any damage.
leaves, fl owers and fruits.

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Some examples of trees

Shrubs are small to medium-sized

plants that can live for several years.
They are smaller than trees. They

usually have many thin woody
rose croton Hibiscus stems growing close to the ground.

Some examples of shrubs They are also called bushes.

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