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From: portegys@ihlpg.UUCP (Tom Portegys)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: smart sunflowers
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 18:26:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 18:26:08 1985
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Question:  Do sunflowers, which are facing western sun in the late
afternoon, found facing the wrong way in the morning when the
sun rises in the east?  Or, do they turn around during the
night to anticipate the morning sun?

Well, this roving reporter made his way out to his plot at
the local community gardens at 3:00 am last saturday to discover
the answer.

And the answer is:  they really were facing east at
3:00 am!  

A small measure of doubt is introduced here by
the fact that there was a faint orange glow on the eastern horizon
from the city of Chicago and its suburbs to the east.

Just thought you might like to know.

			Tom Portegys, 
			Bell Labs, Naperville, Ill.
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