On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:37:25 +0100, Malcolm
wrote:


In article , martin
writes
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:24:31 +0100, Neil Trotter
wrote:

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As for runner beans -- I'm not sure they'll be in season just now, even
in Northland, but maybe someone who knows about such things can tell me
if they wind around poles the *other* way (i.e. clockwise as viewed from
above) in NZ?

I'm guessing that if they do, it's somehow related to the movement of
the sun, and not much at all to do with the coriolis effect :-)
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Footnote: of course the query is not confined to NZ (I just happen to
have ties to it), but any runner-bean-growing location in the southern
hemisphere.

and do they grow straight up on the equator

Cue Flanders and Swann song called 'Misalliance' on the subject.....

The fragrant Honeysuckle spirals clockwise to the sun
and many other creepers do the same
But some climb anticlockwise,
the Bindweed does for one,
or Convovulus, to give her proper name.
Rooted on either side a door
one of each species grew
and raced up to the window ledge above
Each corkscrewed to the lintel in the only way it knew
where they stopped, touched tendrils, smiled
and fell in love.

snip a load of old Flanders


I thought somebody might post that :-)
--
martin