How do vines and similar plants find something to climb?

Subject: How do vines and similar plants find something to climb?

Date: Fri Nov 19 13:32:15 1999
Posted by April Washburn
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: NA
City: Lebanon State/Province: KY Country: USA
Area of science: Botany
ID: 943036335.Bt

Message:


This past summer, one of Mom's climing vines -- a Texas Star plant -- 
somehow took over my bicycle which was tied to the same place where that 
plant was growing.  How did the Texas Star know that it was there?  Also, 
I wonder how kudzu "knows" to cross a wire when it climes a telephone or 
other pole.

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