Phenomena

“Plants That Explode”

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We often think of plants as passive and stationary, but the truth is that some plants move faster than we can even see. In this “True Facts” video, Ze Frank takes a look at a whole host of fast-moving plants, including horsetail plant spores that walk and jump, trebuchet-like bunchberry dogwood, vortex-ring-shooting moss, and moisture-driven self-digging seeds. These plants all use clever mechanisms that leverage water to spread the plant’s reproductive material at little to no energy cost to the plant itself. (Video and image credit: Z. Frank)

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