Table 1 Complexity metrics of a droplet of the electrolytic medium containing a collection of the living pollen tubes of hyacinth at a critical (optimum) growth temperature and beyond.

From: Collective excitations of germinating pollen grains at critical points

Meas. #*

(°C) hyacinth

Corrected R/S Hurst exponent

Empirical Hurst exponent

Entropy ChaoShen (in bits)

Entropy ApEn SampEn

Lyapunov exponent (Λ) [emb. dims]

Spectral exponent (β)

00249

@22.95(5) critical

0.96

0.96

1.41 (2.04)

0.1427

0.1037

Deterministic

− 15.26 [10]

0.873 (27)

00232

@20.20(5) beyond

0.87

0.89

1.69 (2.44)

0.8240

0.7528

Random

− 16.14 [10]

0.691 (28)

  1. *Raw data files are available upon reasonable request.