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Originally Posted by Gabe15
I've always meant to investigate the phenomenon further, but haven't got around to it (yet), and haven't seen any obvious explanations in the literature (though it's probably out there somewhere, I just haven;t looked very hard).
... and like a champagne cork, the result is an immediate and quick spurt of apparent growth of the young leaves below the cut.
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Besides the compression force being released there is also the torsion force. Most folks have probably noticed the phenomenon of the center shaft spinning/rotating/twisting as it travels through the pseudostem, if not, it's from right to left, or clockwise if viewing from above.