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Re: Is transpiration assisted by movement?

Subject: Re: Is transpiration assisted by movement?
From: "Peter Jason"
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:19:29 +1100
Newsgroups: sci.bio.botany
I thought I was the first with this 
hypothesis.

Do you have trees where you are?
There're big plants as tall as a house and 
they have leaves, and birds sit in them.
Would you like a picture?


"Cereus-validus-..........." 
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> Or not!!!
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> So you want to be the Kiwi Archie?!!!
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>>I was looking at a tree last night and I 
>>couldn't help noticing that it was always 
>>moving because of the wind.
>> Perhaps this constant moving assists the 
>> transpiration stream to attain great 
>> heights due to some pumping motion.
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