Supported by a Sinnott Award, Callin Switzer with colleagues Robin Hopkins and Stacy Combes examined the unique method of pollination in mountain laurel. With the anther filaments acting as catapults, the pollen reaches speeds of 8 miles per hour, making it one of the fastest moving plants in the world! Abstract » Harvard Gazette »
![Tibetan house in Sertar [Seke]](https://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/ree_woodstonehouse_tibet_1997-60x60.jpg)
I have many, many of these in my compost pile in (...)
Wow, Acer pycnanthum! ... maybe Mount Hope Cemetery in (...)
Lovely tribute, lyrical
Thank you for the link to the article. Yet another reason to savor the wonder of the mountain laurels when we hike the many trails in Connecticut!