About This Video

Animals utilize their sense of smell to explore their surroundings. But what about plants? When you smell a flower, is it smelling you back? Is it trying to figure out if your nose would make a good pollinator? Chemical ecologist Consuelo De Moraes shows us a parasitic vine that uses smell to find its preferred host—the tomato.
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Image courtesy of Dklimke; Recorded June 2011; Posted July 2011