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I wondered as I pulled a load of it off some wire fencing yesterday. All the stuff I removed spiralled the same way.
Is it in its DNA?
🤔🧐
No idea, but does it spin the other way in the southern hemisphere?
Like water in a bath 🤔❓
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3296579/New-twist-on-plants-that-grow-in-spirals.html
Snail shells also spiral in a consistent direction - although you do rarely find one that spirals in the other.
I reckon they would...plants tend to grow upwards (towards the sunlight), so the top part will always wrap down By the way the wind blows the top part which will be growing up until it is long enough to blow over (this all works until the top is then the bottom and my suggestion should then have it growing the other way as the wind will blow it up again so would be a wave...) and away from the existing growth...so would spiral.
Actually forget that, it sounds complete rubbish now it is typed out - and will only be like that if the plant grows the same way on every piece for it to spiral the same way...and also relies on the wind being the same direction as well...aye, utter mince!!!
“The direction of twist is not derived from the shoot following the sun. It is likely to be genetic”
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg22830411-700-clockwise/#ixzz6VSVFMJcB
Maybe the top of the plant follows the suns trajectory like sunflowers do?
EDIT - Damn you Malvern Rider 😉
That Kings singers version is awful
‘Plahnts are a new venture for us’ 🤣
Agreed the King’s Singer's is inferior. It strips all of the charm and humour from the song, replacing wit with something altogether more like an English ‘Stepford Community’ Recital.
Misalliance
The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun
and many other creepers do the same
But some climb anticlockwise,
the Bindweed does for one,
or Convovulus, to give her proper name.
Rooted on either side a door
one of each species grew
and raced up to the window ledge above
Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew
where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled
and fell in love.
Said the right-handed Honeysuckle to the left handed Bindweed
'oh let us get married if our parents don't mind we'd
be loving and inseparable, inextricably entwined we'd
live happily ever after' said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed.
To the Honeysuckle's parents it came as a shock,
the Bindweeds, they cried, 'are inferior stock,
They're uncultivated, of breeding bereft
We twine to the right and they twine to the left'.
Said the anticlockwise Bindweed to the clockwise Honeysuckle;
'We'd better start saving
Many a mickle mac's a muckle
Then run away on a honeymoon and hope that out luck'll
take a turn for the better', said the Bindweed to the Honeysuckle.
A bee who was passing exclaimed to them then;
'I've said it before and I'll say it again
Consider your offshoots, if offshoots there be,
They'll never receive any blessing from me'.
Poor little sucker, how will it learn
When it is climbing, which way to turn,
Right, Left, what a disgrace
Our it may go straight up and fall flat on its face.
Said the right-hand thread Honeysuckle to the left-hand thread Bindweed
'It seems that against us all fate has combined
Oh my darling, oh my darling
Oh my darling Columbine
thou art lost and gone forever
We shall never intertwine'.
Together they found them, the very next day
They had pulled up their roots and just shrivelled away
Deprived of that freedom for which we must fight
To veer to the left or to veer to the right.
That Kings singers version is awful
Yes, you're right, apologies, and thanks for finding the proper version. My Tube-fu was out of order this morning.
only 90% of the time
Didn’t we do this conversation but about seashells last summer?