Category: Amazing Plants
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Plants Can Manipulate Pollinators’ Behavior
Scientists report the results from field experiments… that show that particular components of the floral fragrance attracted pollinators, while bitter-tasting and poisonous components of floral nectar enforced modest drinking behavior.
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Oldest Living Tree Moves To Europe
The new record contender, which would have taken root just after the last ice age, was found among a cluster of around 20 spruces believed to be more than 8,000 years old.
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Flowers Pursue Co-Evolution More Aggressively Than Animals
Basically, the flowers are making an evolutionary decision.
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Roots Have A Pulse, Too
When the scientists trained their cameras on the hairs, rather than witnessing a slow, steady lengthening, they were surprised to see the hairs undergoing rhythmic pulses of growth every 20 seconds.
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Underwater Gilled Mushroom — A First
As far as weve determined, this is a first in Oregon as well as a first in the world… Were not aware of anything at all like this in mycology where the reproductive mushroom structure appears to be perennially underwater.
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A Plant Needs Its Mother
…Plants grown in the same setting as their maternal plant performed almost 3½ times better than those raised in a different environment — indicating that maternal plants give cues to their offspring that help them adapt to their environmental conditions.
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Testing Botanical Intelligence
If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us… Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain.
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Invasive Plants Have An Edge
We’ve seen this capability in a number of invasive plants that have come from Eurasia, such as garlic mustard… The roots exude a toxin that kills native plants.
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Insects Manipulated By Plants For Sex
The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder odor to draw the bugs into female cones so the plants are pollinated.
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Using Plants To Control Plants
Some plants are biologically capable of eliminating other plants. That's sparked interest in using them for weed control.