selaginella lepidophylla (false rose of jericho) opening

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• false
• rose
• of
• jericho
• selaginella
• lepidophylla
• plant
• opening
• unfolding
• resurrection

[Ingiequeen]

I have looked online for these for sale but I cannot find any, where do you get these awesome plants?

[bionerd23]

just google for "dinosaur plant", you will see some places that sell it.

[KarbineKyle]

5/5! Awesome! That's a nice camera you are using! How much memory did that video (file) use? I love how you can see the "twitches" while it's expanding. I guess that's when the plant "slows or grows". I love all the experiments you do! If there is one thing I love, it's science! I could talk to you all day and night about science! It's good to know you love and admire nature the way I do! I wish the people that I used to associate with knew a word I was talking about! That's why I lack friends!

[bionerd23]

erm, approx. 1-2 GB, i cannot remember exactly.

but usually, quality is what matters, not quantity - that's the case with having friends, anyway. ;)

dont worry though, i hardly know anybody i can share my interest with IN REAL LIFE, anyway. i basically know people with similar interests because i've met them online, often through youtube.

[SiliciumScience]

whats this? an opening plant? how does it open?

[bionerd23]

it opens due to the capillary effect. if you have a glass tube with a very small diameter (a quater of a straw or less) and dip it in water, the water will get sucked into the tube... that's the capillary effect that makes this plant suck up the water and thus, it expands.

[AndreiNico11]

hey i have a question! this false rose of jericho is as resistent as the real one? I mean it doesn't die easly, it can open and close too many times...

[TheSeanothon]

Cool video

[Peaches70380]

@Ingiequeen Thinkgeek. com has them for less than $10.

[sn1pe352]

How does that explain how tree trunks have water in them despite the massive atmospheric pressures? In experiments by nasa in microgravity it seems the effect is reversed, when a syringe (empty) is put inside water,the water "pulls" the air into it causing neat little vortex-rings, check it out on my videos