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Sunflowers ‘dance’ together to share sunlight.

\nExperts have found that the plants that grow close together, casting a shadow over their neighbours, have found a way to resolve the problem through movement.

\nProfessor Yasmine Meroz, an expert at Tel Aviv University in Israel, made the discovery after growing sunflowers in a high-density environment and photographing them as they grew.

\nA time-lapse film shows the plants ‘dancing’ to “find the best angle so each would not block the sunlight of their neighbour”.

\nProfessor Meroz said: “Previous studies have shown that if sunflowers are densely planted in a field where they shade each other they grow in a zigzag pattern – one forward and one back – so as not to be in each other’s shadow.

\n“This way they grow side by side to maximise illumination from the sun, and therefore photosynthesis, on a collective level.”
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