Time-lapse flowers. (VIDEO)

University of Tokyo

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The unique bidirectional color-changing petals were only observed now because in nature, the plant is a chaotic bundle of buds, leaves and flowers that grows quite rapidly. So, it was not really possible to track individual flowers over time. But thanks to carefully controlled time-lapse video recording, now individual flowers can be tracked and hence lead to observations such as this one.

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