M>0.5. From a tree.

| No Comments

Wikipedia on the White Mulberry tree:

The White Mulberry is scientifically notable for the rapid plant movement of the pollen release from its catkins. The flowers fire pollen into the air by rapidly (25 µs) releasing stored elastic energy in the stamens. The resulting movement is in excess of half the speed of sound, making it the fastest known movement in the plant kingdom.

Outrun by a tree. Oh, the shame.

Leave a comment

Categories

Monthly Archives

Pages

OpenID accepted here Learn more about OpenID
Powered by Movable Type 4.32-en

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Jonathan published on August 24, 2007 2:41 PM.

Another genius idea of mine was the previous entry in this blog.

Avid not-FreeDV-any more is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.