09-29-2019, 09:03 AM
Here's an interesting experiment if you have some spare time. In the lush tropical Puna landscape that most of us have as front and backyards, find a few mimosa or sensitive plants.
Then follow the steps taken by Monica Gagliano, a professor in Australia on Mimosa pudicas:
The first time Gagliano dropped the plants—fifty-six of them—from the measured height, they responded as expected. But after several more drops, fewer of them closed. She dropped each of them sixty times, in five-second intervals. Eventually, all of them stopped closing. She continued like this for twenty-eight days, but none of them ever closed up again. It was only when she bothered them differently—such as by grabbing them—that they reverted to their usual defense mechanism.
Here's more about the experiment, her research, and the memory and/or intelligence of plants:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019...of-plants/
Then follow the steps taken by Monica Gagliano, a professor in Australia on Mimosa pudicas:
The first time Gagliano dropped the plants—fifty-six of them—from the measured height, they responded as expected. But after several more drops, fewer of them closed. She dropped each of them sixty times, in five-second intervals. Eventually, all of them stopped closing. She continued like this for twenty-eight days, but none of them ever closed up again. It was only when she bothered them differently—such as by grabbing them—that they reverted to their usual defense mechanism.
Here's more about the experiment, her research, and the memory and/or intelligence of plants:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019...of-plants/
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