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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery

This video from a recent Science Friday finds a cucumber doing something truly bizarre. What happens when you grab a coiled cucumber tendril and pull it?

Written by Alun Salt

Alun (he/him) is the Producer for Botany One. It's his job to keep the server running. He's not a botanist, but started running into them on a regular basis while working on writing modules for an Interdisciplinary Science course and, later, helping teach mathematics to Biologists. His degrees are in archaeology and ancient history.

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