- Bine (botany)
A bine is a climbing
plant which climbs by its shoots growing in ahelix around a support. It is distinct from avine , which climbs using tendrils or suckers.The stems of many bines are rough or bristly and downward-pointing to aid their grip.
The rotation of the shoot tip during climbing is autonomous, and does not (as sometimes imagined) derive from the shoot following the sun around the sky – the direction of twist does not therefore depend upon which side of the
equator the plant is growing. This is shown by the fact that some bines always twineclockwise , includingrunner bean ("Phaseolus coccineus") andbindweed (Convolvulaceae), while others twineanticlockwise , includingFrench bean ("Phaseolus vulgaris") and climbinghoneysuckle s ("Lonicera" species).ee also
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Chirality (handedness)
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