We all know that the phloem tubes carry nutrients to the flowers of this agapantha through it long slender stalk. But one may wonder how these nutrients overcome the gravity that pushes it down. The answer is transpiration. Water evaporates out of the stomata under leaves and the suction it creates plus the cohesion and adhesion of water allows the nutrients to climb up the phloem like soda up a straw.
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