The secret speed of plants | Science News

Life moves pretty fast for some plant species. If you don’t stop to look at these clips carefully, you could miss it.

Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/ar....ticle/meet-speedster

Credits:
Story
Dan Garisto

Production
Helen Thompson

Video

Venus flytrap
Scott Schiller/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Bunchberry dogwood
Alejandro Acosta, J. Edwards, Marta Laskowski and D. Whitaker

Bladderworts
O. Vincent et al/Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2018 (CC BY 4.0)
http://rspb.royalsocietypublis....hing.org/content/278

Horsetail plant
Philippe Marmottant/Lab Interdisciplinaire de Physque CNRS and Univ. of Grenoble
http://rspb.royalsocietypublis....hing.org/content/280

Sphagnum moss
Emily Chang, Dwight Whitaker, Nora Mitchell, Joan Edwards, Clara Hard, Jeff Stenzel, Farry Taraz & Matthew Law
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5990/406

Music
Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” by Skidmore College Orchestra/MusOpen
https://musopen.org/music/5072-1812-overture-op49/