Its tendrils cling easily to the walls, building sculptural branch arrangements punctuated all the more by dry flower heads and peeling cinnamon bark in the winter. Climbing hydrangeas devote the ...

This video shows how the tendrils of a cucumber coil. The cucumber plant uses tendrils to attach onto structures or other plants and ascend toward coveted areas of unobstructed light. As the ...

Dr Barbara Mazzolai, an expert in biorobotics, tells us about creating the first artificial plant tendril that can climb and reverse its movements through hydraulics. Plants move at a much slower rate ...

In their natural environments, climbing plants employ a whole host of different methods in an attempt to reach sunlight and spread out, including tendrils, wrapping, and adhering to other plants.