“Once-in-a-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported in Japan
> Perhaps even more surprising than the long intervals at which they flower is the fact that all plants of the same stock of bamboo will bloom at the same time, and then die, no matter where they are in the world.<p>> Although the mechanism has yet to be explained by science, many believe there is some kind of natural “alarm clock” in the plant’s cells causing the behavior.<p>That is amazing.  I'm having a hard time imagining how that could even be possible, for DNA to have an "absolute" sense of time.  Some kind of day/night/time of year "counting" mechanism?