Whether plants can think, feel and talk to one another is a topic of debate in the world of botany — but some plants certainly react to outside stimuli. They also show how they are feeling.
Perhaps the easiest to observe and understand are plants that open their flowers when it’s sunny and close them when the sun goes down.
Others, such as sunflowers, follow the path of the sun as it travels from east to west each day.
These plants are taking advantage of the sun’s warmth to bring pollinators to feed on their pollen and fertilise the flower so it can form seeds.
Researchers at the University of California in Davis have studied sunflowers and found they have an internal circadian clock. If that sounds familiar, our bodies follow a circadian rhythm…
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