In a typical experiment, the flowers had been dry after harvest for about 4 h at 20 ◦C. They thus had lost some water prior to vase life. When placed in water again the flowers were able to rapidly replenish the lost water: the rate of water uptake of cut flowers was high on day 0–1 of vase life. However, water uptake was already low after 24 h of vase life (Fig. 3A), and transpiration was by then also