Someone recently mentioned to me that I hadn't written a good old fashioned meteorology post in a while. So, here's a fun topic for you, one that you can show off to your kids if you can catch it at ...
Gardeners sometimes see leaves fringed with droplets of liquid. The droplets are not dew or rain, and plants don’t sweat. So what are they? Those drops are a way for the plants to excrete excess water ...
Dear Jessica: Can you please tell me what these droplike things are on the leaves in the picture? If it’s a disease, how do I treat it? — Marilyn Von Braunsberg, Oceanside Dear Marilyn: Those sticky ...
The other evening, I was sitting in the living room reading when I glanced at a bird flying past the window and noticed water drops on the leaves of our Monstera deliciosa plant. This phenomenon, ...
Guttation is the loss of water in the form of water droplets from hydathodes (small pores) on the leaf margin of a small herbacious plant. What is guttation? Guttation is the loss of water in the form ...
Guttation: Water exuded from leaves. It appears as a single large drop pendant at the tip of a leaf or blade of foliage, and in grass it is often confused with dew. Weiss hospital, set to lose ...