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  2. The Private Life of Plants - Wikipedia

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    The series utilises time-lapse sequences extensively in order to grant insights that would otherwise be almost impossible. Plants live on a different time scale, and even though their life is highly complex and often surprising, most of it is invisible to humans unless events that happen over months or even years are shown within seconds.

  3. Socratea exorrhiza - Wikipedia

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    A close up view of the stilt roots How the stilt roots were proposed to allow it to right itself after other plants collapse on it. 1 - the palm is growing normally. 2 - a tree collapses onto the palm and flattens the stem. 3 - new stilt roots form along the old stem and the original roots (dashed lines) start to die. 4 - the palm continues to grow normally but has now moved away from where it ...

  4. Time-lapse photography - Wikipedia

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    Sunset time-lapse video Mung bean seeds germinating, a 10-day time-lapse in roughly 1 minute Ten minute time-lapse video of the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, in Mazatlán, Mexico The ALMA time-lapse of the night sky [1] Blossoming geraniums; two hours are compressed into a few seconds.

  5. The Secret Life of Plants - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, which documents controversial experiments that claim to reveal unusual phenomena associated with plants, such as plant sentience and the ability of plants to communicate with other creatures, including humans. The book goes on to discuss philosophies and ...

  6. Plumeria - Wikipedia

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    Time-lapse of a flower opening. Plumeria trees flower from early summer to fall. Their blossoms grow in clusters on ends of the stems, they are made of tubular corolla with a length of 2–4 inches (5.1–10.2 cm) that split sharply into five rounded and waxy petals that overlap each other.

  7. Laburnum - Wikipedia

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    Laburnum trees are ubiquitous in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, where they are commonly planted as lawn specimens or in shrub borders. Most garden specimens are of the hybrid between the two species, Laburnum × watereri 'Vossii' (Voss's laburnum), which combines the longer racemes of L. alpinum with the denser flowers of L. anagyroides ...

  8. Germination - Wikipedia

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    A seed pot used in horticulture for sowing and taking plant cuttings and growing plugs Germination glass (glass sprouter jar) with a plastic sieve-lid Brassica campestris germinating seeds Time-lapse video of mung bean seeds germinating. Germination is usually the growth of a plant contained within a seed resulting in the formation of the seedling.

  9. Selenicereus grandiflorus - Wikipedia

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    S. grandiflorus is a fast-growing epiphytic and lithophytic plant, though it takes two to three years to begin producing blooms. [3] Keep it on the dry side each winter, and move it outdoors under a shade tree in late spring. It needs compost containing plenty of humus and sufficient moisture in summer.