Cool! If there's a plant show maybe I'll twiddle my B52s. I won't go blind will I?
Not if you can hold it to one “touch” per day.
Cool! If there's a plant show maybe I'll twiddle my B52s. I won't go blind will I?
This is kind of misleading. It's not really cell growth - indeed, it is growth in a semantic sense, but biologically, it's expansion due to water intake, like inflating a balloon. The cells are not dividing or increasing in mass due to metabolic activity:What did I tell you guys?? Instant cell growth--explained!! Thanks, Arthur!!!
I think we should spend less time arguing over words and specific accounts as they always seem to turn out as, "everyone's right in their own way," situations. After-school special moments were never really that insightful anyways.Water enters the cells by osmosis. Since the cells have become unglued, they are able to expand as they take in water, and hence they grow.
Tommyr, you just might develop trigger hairs on your palms! THEN WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
But then the traps reopen not by contracting the expanded side, but by growing on the opposite side - so it is growth - the cellular fibers are made flexible by depleting calcium from them - they stretch - calcium is reabsorbed and they lose their flexibility and remain the new length. The plant must add new material to these fibers or else they would lose strength - but that could partially explain why the traps wear out.
I guess we could call it expansion instead of growth.