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The plant that can water itself (self-irrigation?)
BBC ^
| 05/14/09
| Matt Walker
Posted on 05/15/2009 1:12:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The plant that can water itself
Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News
In the deserts of Israel, there is a plant that waters itself.
The plant, a type of rhubarb, has specially designed leaves that channel rain water to its roots.
It is the only known plant in the world able to self-irrigate.
The adaptation allows the rhubarb to flourish in extreme arid conditions by collecting up to 16 times more water than other plants in the region, say the scientists who published details of the discovery in Naturwissenschaften.
Simcha Lev-Yadun, Gadi Katzir and Gidi Ne'eman of the University of Haifa, Israel first noticed the desert rhubarb when studying plants in the country's mountainous desert.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: rhubarb; selfirrigation; selfwatering
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: americanophile
coolCool Water.
Don't you listen to him, Dan.
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:02:48 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/15/2009 2:39:05 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’d like a garden that could weed itself.
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posted on
05/15/2009 3:02:47 AM PDT
by
goldi
To: TigerLikesRooster
Self-irrigation: what happens when you don’t reach the bathroom in time.
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posted on
05/15/2009 3:07:15 AM PDT
by
exit82
(The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
geez! wouldn’t one think that after millions of years that evolution would have adapted plants to this?
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posted on
05/15/2009 3:43:06 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Leave it to the Jews to come up with stuff like that - amazing.
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posted on
05/15/2009 4:39:14 AM PDT
by
BobL
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posted on
05/15/2009 5:51:09 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity, S. Freud)
To: decimon
cool
Cool Water.
Don't you listen to him, Dan.
Hes a devil not a man and he spreads the burnin sands with water...
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:08:45 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Where's my FOF Indicator?)
To: Tainan
Hes a devil not a man and he spreads the burnin sands with water... In the economic desert the water would be federal monies.
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:13:16 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: TigerLikesRooster
They need to water the plants with this stuff. It's Got Electrolytes! It's what plants crave.
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:15:36 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:18:43 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
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Me thinks they need to get this plant...
to grow beer?
That would really help... 
the economy!
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:34:26 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: decimon
LOL...he’s a devil, not a man.
To: americanophile
LOL...he’s a devil, not a man.The TARP-Stimulus money is the water. The water is a mirage. We are all Dan, the mule.
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posted on
05/15/2009 10:16:32 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: TigerLikesRooster
If they can get a strawberry to do that too, were in business.
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:39:59 PM PDT
by
rmlew
( The SAVE and GIVE acts are institutioning Corvee. Where's the outtrage!)
To: rmlew
We used to plant onions among the potatos because it made their eyes water.
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posted on
05/15/2009 6:42:11 PM PDT
by
csmusaret
(http://www.aipnews.com/)
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