Seeds - Unusual & Exotic - The Dancing Plant / Telegraph Plant - 5 Seeds - Seeds only
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The Dancing Plant, also known as the Telegraph Plant
This peculiar shrub - botanically known as Codariocalyx Motorius - is native to Asia, and has sparked the interests of botanists and others alike. The leaflets move in set elliptical patterns to help deduce the position of the sun (to appropriately expend energy moving the larger leaves where fitting). The intense fascination with these plants does not occur from its flowering habits, its peculiar behaviour, or even its life cycle.
The most intriguing thing about this plant is that it moves when stimulated by sound. Touching the plants will not cause the move, as the Sensitive Plant does. Changing the amount of light will not typically affect the elliptical movement of the leaflets. When exposed to sound, particularly high pitch (high frequency) sound waves, however, the plants leaflets and leaves move in a peculiar fashion. The leaves move dramatically enough, and quick enough, to be reasonably observed by the human eye (time lapse photography or videos can show its movements even more so)
Video references on YOUTUBE: follow this link
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