Author: Dan Garisto / Source: Science News
Nature may have a few things to teach tennis players about backspin.
The hairyflower wild petunia (Ruellia ciliatiflora) shoots seeds that spin up to 1,660 times per second, which helps them fly farther, researchers report March 7 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. These seeds have the fastest known rotations of any plant or animal, the authors say.
Plants that disperse seeds a greater distance are likely to be more successful in reproducing and spreading.Glue that holds…
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