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Picks of the Week
Try: http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantsinmotion.html
or http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu/
Consider the yin and yang of those cousins, the morning glory and the moon
flower. The morning glory opens early in the day so it can
be pollinated by bees and other insects who take advantage
of the daylight. The moon flower is an evening bloomer that
opens specifically so that night-flying moths will pollinate.
Like most moth-pollinated flowers, moon flowers are white
and their petals fall the morning after the bloom.
Join IU biologist Roger Hangarter, president-elect of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and click your mouse on the online ticket to his “Plants-In-Motion” videos of flowers doing what flora do. Or visit the SoFA Gallery in Bloomington, where Hangarter’s “performance art” videos and Arizona artist Dennis DeHart’s still lifes portray the dynamic existences of the leafy ones (and no, it’s not a Little Shop of Horrors, but an exhibition titled sLow Life, running through Nov. 21).
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