"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2/1/05 10:46, in article , "Cerumen"
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"ecky-h" wrote in message
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Can anyone help with the answer to this quiz question, please:

Describes a plant that binds from left to right

From left to right seems normal?
I'm sure there is a word but a quick check through books finds nothing
yet.
It did raise another question though; I have always assumed that
plants
generally curl in a clockwise direction as the growing tip follow the
sun
through the day, does that mean they curl anticlockwise in the
southern
hemisphere where the sun moves from right to left across the sky?


According to the answer I found in Stearn, the Hop twists from left to
right
in the direction of the sun's course while e.g. Convolvulus sepium
twists to
the left (sinistrorsum)

I assume Convolvulus sepium is antipodean, or am I wrong?


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Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland