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Bunchberry flower. Photo: James Anderson, CC some rights reserved
Natural Selections: Exploding Flowers
Paul Smiths, NY, Mar 28, 2013 — Some flowers open quickly, and some are even spring-loaded--like the venus fly trap--but the floral deployment speed record belongs to the lowly dogwood relative, the bunchberry, which when triggered opens its tiny four-petal bloom in less than a millisecond. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss flower power.
Video: Exploding bunchberry in extreme slow motion


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