Cross-Section of Fascicle Bud from a Longleaf Pine (IMAGE)

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Cross-Section of Fascicle Bud from a Longleaf Pine

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In Physics of Fluids, researchers are currently probing how well pine needles allay the impact of rain beneath the tree. They explored the impact of raindrops onto fixed, noncircular fibers of the longleaf pine by using high-speed videography to capture the results. This image shows a cross-section of fascicle bud from the Pinus palustris, aka longleaf pine, used for the experiments.

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Lebanoff and Dickerson, UCF

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