Survival of the fastest: forest flower catapults into record books

IT is the fastest pollen gun in the west, or the whole world for that matter.

Survival of the fastest: forest flower catapults into record books

The flower of the bunchberry dogwood bursts open to shoot pollen in just under 0.5 milliseconds - the fastest movement recorded in any plant, scientists said yesterday.

Bunchberry dogwood grows in dense carpets in the vast spruce fir forests of the northern United States and Canada.

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