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The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants
Charles Darwin
A climbing plant hunts for support by circling the air, and Charles Darwin timed its patient revolutions. He studies twining plants, leaf-climbers, and tendril-bearers, revealing the slow, deliberate movements of the green world. Precise, ingenious, and quietly revolutionary. A classic of botanical observation from the master himself. Watch a vine reach, grope, and grip, and see plants move as you never imagined.
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16 chapters
- 1THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS.
- 2PREFACE
- 3APPENDIX TO PREFACE (1882).
- 4ERRATA.
- 5THE MOVEMENTS AND HABITS OF CLIMBING PLANTS.
- 6CHAPTER I. Twining Plants.
- 7Twining Plants.
- 8The Rate of Revolution of various Twining Plants.
- 9CHAPTER II. Leaf-Climbers.
- 10CHAPTER III. Tendril-Bearers.
- 11CHAPTER IV. Tendril-Bearers—(continued).
- 12The Spiral Contraction of Tendrils.
- 13Summary on the Nature and Action of Tendrils.
- 14CHAPTER V. Hook and Root-Climbers.—Concluding Remarks.
- 15Concluding Remarks on Climbing Plants.
- 16FOOTNOTES.
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