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Published online 28 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050926-11
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These are not orange starfish on the sea floor but tiny hairs on the underside of a plant's leaf. Known as trichomes, the hairs help the leaf to fend off the attentions of hungry insects and parasites.
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