We don’t usually get to witness the movements of plants and fungi, which happen so slowly that we don’t notice it with our naked eyes. But these timelapse videos speed up the process, letting us appreciate the sometimes graceful growing and dying of these organisms.
Spring Awakening, shot in Poland by Artur Homan
Life cycle of the Rose of Jericho, filmed by Neil Bromhall
Blooming flowers
The lifecycle of fly agaric
The Coolest Nature Video Ever, edited by Roen Horn, 2013
Amazing Nature, by Le Minh Hieu, 2014
Various fungi from BBC Planet Earth series
Venus flytraps
Biolapse, a timelapse of carnivorous plants
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