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The giant cactus of Western films grows wild only in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northwest Mexico. It grows so slowly that its first arms appear after 50 to 100 years, and it can live for more than 150 years.
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📍 Southwestern Colombia & Ecuador
Hawaii's glossy, heart-shaped anthurium is native to Colombia and Ecuador and only reached the islands from London in 1889. The red 'heart' isn't a petal: the real flowers are the tiny bumps on its spike.
📍 China
Garden chrysanthemums were bred in China for many centuries before they reached Japan. There the flower became the emperor's emblem, which is why the Japanese monarchy is called the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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📍 Southern Mexico & Guatemala
The Swiss cheese plant grows wild only in the rainforests of southern Mexico and Guatemala. Its name 'deliciosa' means delicious: the ripe fruit is edible.
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📍 Nome, Alaska, USA
The first official sled dog race, the All Alaska Sweepstakes, was organised in Nome, Alaska, in 1908: teams ran 408 miles to Candle and back. Musher Scotty Allan said it was as big an event in Alaska as the Kentucky Derby.
📍 Canadian Arctic (Nunavut)
Igloo comes from iglu, the Inuit word for any house, not only one made of snow; English picked it up in the Canadian Arctic in 1824. It may be −45 °C outside, but body heat alone can warm a snow igloo to as much as 16 °C inside.
📍 Buffalo, New York, USA
Named after Buffalo, New York, not the animal. The Anchor Bar says co-owner Teressa Bellissimo first tossed fried wings in hot sauce there in 1964, though local chef John Young said he was frying wings in Buffalo from 1961.