How a Vine Wraps a Twig


How a Vine Wraps a Twig
Hops vine (photograph from Wikimedia Commons)

24 Might 2024

In case you drink beer you’re conversant in the flavour of hops which is used as a bittering, flavoring, and steadiness agent in beer. Relying at the selection, hops too can upload floral, fruity, or citrus flavors and aromas.

The hops plant itself, Humulus lupulus, is a perennial vine that vigorously twines itself round uprights and strings within the hopfield.

Hops vine hiking a spray (photograph from Wikimedia Commons)

To take action it makes use of to a movement referred to as Circumnutation.

Circumnutation refers back to the round actions continuously exhibited by way of the ideas of rising plant stems, led to by way of repeating cycles of variations in enlargement across the facets of the elongating stem.

Wikipedia: Nutation (botany) account

The wrapping occurs slowly, however if you happen to velocity it up right here’s what it looks as if.

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