Do flowers fall in love?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Flowers help us express our love. A beautiful bouquet can say to the people in our lives, “I’m thinking of you” or even “I love you!” But what about the flowers themselves? Do they ever get to have love stories of their own? We asked plant scientist Laura Steel to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Moment of um. |
| 0:06.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Anna Weggle. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Tuesday I like to rearrange my houseplants. |
| 0:19.0 | Sometimes I go by alphabetical order, you know, Aloe vera, Bagonia, |
| 0:23.1 | chrysanthemum, etc. |
| 0:24.8 | Sometimes I like to arrange them an order of largest smallest leaves. |
| 0:28.4 | Today, I'm just freestyling and I'm feeling the vibes. |
| 0:31.6 | Hmm. Let's see how the violets look next to the bagonias. |
| 0:35.0 | Eh, I don't know. |
| 0:40.0 | Maybe they should be on opposite sides of the window sill, vibe check. |
| 0:45.1 | Bagonia, would you love living next to your friend Miss Violet over here? |
| 0:49.6 | Do you plants love each other? |
| 0:51.4 | How do you feel about each other? Wait, do flowers feel love? My friend |
| 0:55.5 | Ilia was wondering about this too. Hello, my name is I'm from Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:03.0 | My question is, do flowers fall in love? |
| 1:07.0 | Humans feel love because we have a brain and a central nervous system. |
| 1:14.0 | Plants don't have these things and so no they don't fall in love. |
| 1:18.0 | My name is Laura Steele and I am a plant scientist in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 1:24.0 | While plants don't have a central nervous system, |
| 1:27.0 | they can still absorb information from the environment around them and they communicate in other ways. |
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