Action Plants: time-lapse videos

From Pink Tentacle: "Various Japanese plants (and fungi) spring to life in Omni/ScienceNet's 'Action Plant' series of time-lapse videos shot in Kōchi prefecture."

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Astragali

I remember the BBC series “The Private Life of Plants”, and its time-lapse cinematography – and one of the most fascinating/terrifying plants was the “humble” bramble. Those things can grow 3 inches per day – and an enterprising soul posted the relevant clip on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMzNW9aLZ0
Anonymous

Actually, the title should read “Action Plants AND Fungus”
Anonymous

Sometimes a mushroom is just a mushroom.
Anonymous

This is very upsetting.
doingsitups

Love this stuff, ok not so much the new-age music, but the wonders of life part.
Jackasimov

I don’t really like feeling like I live on an alien planet. I’m leaving.
- hapa
  
  stick a camera in one of your orifices & watch the show, you’ll feel more at home
  - Jackasimov
    
    gottdammit, I meant leaving Earth.
    - hapa
      
      im esper linked w/ your gut flora, they say they want to go to uranus — oh ha ha that is so very funny
Anonymous

Nice!!!
Anonymous

Playing all 4 of them at once was interesting.
erratic

Haha, that first one looks like a rocket ship blasting off!