Candle-Making Botany Exploration
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Candle-Making Botany Exploration
Field notes: plants and candle-making
Plants make many useful materials, including ingredients for some candles. Soybean seeds can be pressed to produce soybean oil, which can be processed into candle wax. Bayberry shrubs have berries with a waxy coating; traditionally, people collected wax from the berries. Carnauba palms grow in warm parts of Brazil. Their leaves have a waxy coating that helps limit water loss, and the coating can be collected to make carnauba wax. Lavender flowers are sometimes used to add scent to candles, but they are not a source of candle wax. A plant’s waxy coating is not the same thing as the food the plant makes. In photosynthesis, plants use light energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make sugars. Those sugars help the plant grow.
Solve the candle clues
Use the field notes to answer Questions 1–7.
- Soybean
- Bayberry
- Carnauba palm
- Lavender
- Soybean seed
- Bayberry berry
- Carnauba palm leaf
- Lavender flower
- Has a coating used to make hard carnauba wax
- Pressed to produce oil for candle wax
- Has a waxy coating that can be collected
- Can add scent to a candle
Plan a Canadian plant candle
Imagine you are designing a candle using a plant that grows in Canada. Your idea must respect what plant parts can actually do.
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