Information Profile @ a
Glance
- The Telegraph Plant also
known as Dancing Plant
or Curiosity Plant or Semaphore
plant, is a tropical Asian shrub known for its slow movement of
the small lateral leaflets which are rotating on their axes and jerking
up and down with a period of about 3 to 5 minutes.
- The
small clover type leaves will move in jerky motions when under the
influence of warmth, sunshine, or touch. The sensitive leaves may begin
their movement at the slightest vibrations such as music.
- The movement of the terminal leaflet by means of
its sub-petiole or pulvinus is quite as rapid, or even more so, than
that of the main petiole, and has much greater amplitude.
- The moving object is recorded by a video
camera, digitized by a frame grabber of a computer and the images stored
and displayed on the monitor screen.
- Attractive waxy green leaves, small purple flowers.
Requires warm conditions. Requires consistently moist soil; do not let
dry out between waterings.
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The plant contains small amounts
of tryptamine alkaloids in leaf, stem, and root.The
leaves of this plant are sometimes used to make
tea.
- Chronobiology is the subject of the
scientific study of biological rhythms of circadian, lunar/tidal and
circannual frequencies.
- Charles
Darwin once wrote in his book, The little leaflets never go to sleep, and
this seems to me very odd... They are at their games of play as late as
11 o'clock at night and probably later.
- Native habitat is widely distributed throughout Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and
Vietnam. It can even be found on
the Society
Islands, a chain of islands dotted remotely in the
South Pacific.
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Moving Plant
- Genus Desmodium
- Telegraph Plant
- Desmodium Gyrans
- Dancing Plant
- Leguminosae
Leaflet Movement Rhythms and
Experiment
- Light-Dependent Changes
- Static Magnetic Field
- Pulvinus
- Life Rhythms
- Organisms Rhythms
- Ultradian Rhythm
- Circadian Rhythmics
- Power of Movement in
Plants-Darwin
- Biological Rhythms
Commercial
Benefits
- Commercial Uses
- Application
- Ayahuasca Analogues
- Tryptamines
-
Carnivorous Plants UK
Market Reports
and Links
- World Seeds Price Codes
- Opaque Market
- Biological Diversity
- SAARC Book Fair-Dhaka
- Chronobiology-Symposium
- Science
- Desmodium gyrans Links
- Telegraph Plant Links
- Semaphore Plant Links
- Arkansas Biodiversity
Authors and
Publishers
- Chronobiology-J C Bose
- M K Chandrashekaran
- Indian Renaissance
- Amitabh Joshi Publications
- Electrical Currents-Leaflet Experiments
- Tuebingen Publications
- National Agriculture Library
- Vijay Kumar Sharma - Publications
- Antkowiak.B
- J. C. Raulston
Seed Supply
Industry
- Whatcom Seed Company
- Children Seeds
- Houseplant Seed
- Banana Tree-Telegraph Plant Seed
- Seed Garden
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