Thermogenesis

Thermogenesis is the process of heat production in organisms. It occurs in all warm-blooded animals, and also in a few species of thermogenic plants such as the Eastern skunk cabbage, the Voodoo lily (Sauromatum venosum), and the giant water lilies of the genus Victoria. The lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium americanum, disperses its seeds explosively through thermogenesis.[1]

  1. ^ deBruyn RA, Paetkau M, Ross KA, Godfrey DV, Friedman CR (February 2015). "Thermogenesis-triggered seed dispersal in dwarf mistletoe". Nature Communications. 6 (1): 6262. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6262D. doi:10.1038/ncomms7262. PMC 4347025. PMID 25662062.