The most explosive flower on earth!

Bunchberry dogwood is not the fastest car on the automobile scene, but it is the fastest flower on the planet.

Bunchberry dogwood is not the fastest car on the automobile scene, but it is the fastest flower on the planet.

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According to The Telegraph, the flower uses a catapult-like device to hurl pollen with about 4,500 times the acceleration of a car going from 0 to 60mph in five seconds.

Prof Joan Edwards from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, found that the force is 800 times greater than the G-force felt by astronauts on take-off and the ejection is faster than the snap of the venus flytrap or the strike of a mantis shrimp.

The flower's petals separate and flip back to expose the stamens, which are designed like catapults and eject pollen to a height of around an inch, about 10 times the height of the flower.