Morning Glories

1. aware
   February 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am

   ooh, spinny.

   would they always grow spinning counterclockwise in all environments?

2. Eni
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:12 am

   That's awesome!

3. Levi
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am

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

4. anon
   February 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am

   Wow. Amazing.

5. Nastia
   February 24th, 2008 at 11:07 am

   that is insanely awesome to the extreme

6. Prairie Dog
   February 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

   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.

7. shecky
   February 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

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

8. Chris W
   February 24th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

   "morning glory" means something else where i come from

9. oakling
   February 24th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

   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.

10. Miss Cellania
    February 24th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    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.

11. sarahenity
    February 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    hahaha chris i was thinking the same thing.

12. Ali S.
    February 24th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    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.

13. thebokonist
    February 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

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

14. Pudifoot
    February 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    ali: it's called "evolution"

    

15. Erik O.
    February 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    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.

16. Miss Cellania
    February 24th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    Feed me, Seymour!

17. Ali S.
    February 25th, 2008 at 1:50 am

    @ Pudifoot

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

18. just a guy
    February 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am

    This is creepy, I agree with Erik

19. Skipweasel
    February 25th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

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

20. Sofar
    February 26th, 2008 at 2:13 am

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

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