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Watch This Cedar Tree Sneeze Pollen, and You'll Sneeze, Too [Video]

It's that time of year in central Texas

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American


Cedar trees in central Texas will start spewing pollen in any day now—dramatically. The season shifts from year to year, December to February, and whenever it happens, people start sneezing in droves. You’ll sneeze just looking at this video from 2010. If you have a great video of a cedar tree sneeze, please send it in and we’ll post it!

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Eliene Augenbraun is a multimedia science producer, formerly Nature Research's Multimedia Managing Editor and Scientific American's senior video producer. Before that, she founded and ran ScienCentral, an award-winning news service providing ABC and NBC with science news stories. She has a PhD in Biology.

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