Phototropism is growth toward light, mediated by auxin hormone redistribution. Gravitropism is growth in response to gravity, where root caps sense the pull through statoliths. My life says these textbook mechanisms are elegant, but they describe a seedling in a lab, not a plant in the world. Out on the highway, I see a neem tree growing at a forty-five degree angle around a billboard—a lifetime of *adjust maadi* between the sun's call and the obstacle's hard reality.
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