2007-03-09 23:41:52 · 13 answers · asked by John Paul S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
lol! That's a good question! But sorry the answer's no - do they grow clockwise in the western hemisphere? I'm not sure if you're thinking along the lines of what direction water goes down a plug hole or the direction of the sun rotating in the day? Climbing plants don't follow the sun (though many species do angle their leaves and even flowers towards the sun) - they put out kinda feelers n when they find something to wrap around they grow towards it.
2007-03-13 07:24:02 · answer #1 · answered by Cathy :) 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, the hemisphere in which the plant is located does not have anything to do with its direction of coiling like it does for the swirling of water in a basin or weather patterns(wind and ocean currents).
But for climbers like beans and twiners like Dolichos lab-lab, the direction of spiralling or coiling(clockwise or anti-clockwise) depends on the species and is the same for any member of the species.
Twiners or climbers which coil from the right side onwards(anti-clockwise) are said to be dextrose and those which climb from the left(clockwise) are said to be sinistrose.
2007-03-10 00:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by arsenick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they do! I've done forest inventories (measurements) in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic forests and I always noticed the majority of the lianas and vines plants grow upwards and spinning counter-clockwise. Look for pictures of vines in tropical forests, (the strangler figs grow to the opposite direction because the grow from the tree-canopy to the ground)
2015-12-28 07:15:12 · answer #3 · answered by Matheus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
climbing twining stemmed plants grow towards the sun. As the sun moves across the sky they try to follow it. How this works is that the stem grows differentially, the side of the stem which is in the dark grows and the side which is lit does not, causing it to bend towards the light.
2007-03-11 15:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Plants grow in the direction of the sun, which is up in all hemispheres.
2007-03-10 00:02:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mully D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They would grow or spiral upwards in the direction according to the sun's strongest position in relation to the plant.
2007-03-09 23:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by Pantera Rosa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh my god a plant that grows clockwise is mother nature you cannot control things like this
it will grow downward, anticlockwise and the roots will be on top of the plant while the growing part is in the soil
2007-03-09 23:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by Prof. Hubert Farnsworth 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most plants are phototropic which means they grow towards the sun. If the plant is geotropic then which hemisphere it's in may affect it.
2007-03-10 00:13:37 · answer #8 · answered by Timothy S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the sun rises in the West and sets in the East!
lol
2007-03-09 23:46:22 · answer #9 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never,why have you seen beans growing clockwise in our northern hemisphere
2007-03-09 23:45:02 · answer #10 · answered by ANIMIKHG 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋