These petunias launch seeds that spin 1,660 times a second
High-speed cameras capture how fastest-known rotation helps plants fling seeds far
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FRUIT PUNCH The seed-studded fruit of a hairyflower wild petunia (Ruellia ciliatiflora) is hygrochastic, bursting open upon contact with water.
Erin Tripp/Univ. of Colorado