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How a Vine Wraps a Twig


Hops vine (picture from Wikimedia Commons)

24 Might 2024

If you happen to drink beer you’re acquainted with the flavour of hops which is used as a bittering, flavoring, and stability agent in beer. Relying on the variability, hops also can add 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 climbing a twig (picture from Wikimedia Commons)

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

Circumnutation refers back to the round actions usually exhibited by the guidelines of rising plant stems, attributable to repeating cycles of variations in progress across the sides of the elongating stem.

Wikipedia: Nutation (botany) account

The wrapping occurs slowly, however should you pace it up right here’s what it seems to be like.

video embedded from gohepcat on YouTube

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