Morning Glories

ooh, spinny.

would they always grow spinning counterclockwise in all environments?

That's awesome!

this brings up the question.... do they spin the opposite direction on the other side of the world?

that is insanely awesome to the extreme

Actually, and this shows my age, Flanders and Swann put out a song "Alliance" about a love affair between the clockwise spinning honeysuckle and the anti-clockwise spinning bindweed. It was a doomed relationship.

No good unless the footage shows it overcoming a man. Or at least a child.

"morning glory" means something else where i come from :P

Oh my god, it doesn't work for me. What is with the rash of YouTube videos disappearing before I get to them? I know it's not my browser, because some of them do play... but it seems like most of the embedded videos I'm coming across lately get taken off YouTube before I ever see them.

oakling, it hasn't been pulled. YouTube has had a few problems today. Lots of people noticing glitches. I hope they have it all taken care of soon.

hahaha chris i was thinking the same thing.

That is so awesome. It makes you wonder what is the mechanism or "spark" that causes the plant to search out an object to curl around.

I mean...that's...neat, I guess.

ali: it's called "evolution"

:-)

for some reason, this video really creeps me out.
because you look at plants as these still, non-moving things, but here's this plant, moving around, grabbing onto stuff.
still really cool though.

Feed me, Seymour!

@ Pudifoot

Hahaha! I walked into that one didn't I? :) D'oh!

This is creepy, I agree with Erik

Prairie Dog, the Flanders and Swann song is "Misalliance" - it's on At The Drop Of A Hat.

The prettiest of the invasive plants currently occupying Seattle. English Ivy is all that's holding my house together, though.