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Frank


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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 8:36 pm   Post subject: Exploding Dogwood Flowers


Here are some amazing extreme slow motion videos of dogwoods flowers (Cornus canadensis) launching their pollen.

http://www.williams.edu/biology/explodingflower/movies.html

Very cool! Cool


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eileen


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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:58 pm   Post subject:


Now that is really amazing!!! I have dogwood in the garden and didn't realise they projected their pollen in such a way. Thanks for the link Frank, as you say, very cool.


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