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Alpine plant spins its own flavonoid wool
2 July 2021
A little alpine plant has been found to eject cobweb-like threads from tiny holes in specialised cells on its leaves. The small perennial cushion-shaped plant with bright yellow flowers, Dionysia tapetodes , is in the primula family and naturally occurs in Turkmenistan and north-eastern Iran, and through the mountains of...