Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
They are amazing to watch open as all that fringy stuff just waves around. I bought a time lapse video camera and my very first video is of Trichosanthes opening ... being my first video and totally unfamiliar with the settings, it was grossly over exposed with pretty much no detail. This is 4 hours compressed into about 30 seconds:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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