PLANT MEMORY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9301, 7 March 1907, Page 2

PLANT MEMORY.

Planit memory is a problem for the inquisitive botanist. In 1901 a plant allied io tho pumpkin was brought from the desert of Sonora, in Mexico, and since

then it has been kept — without watering — in a strange climate thousands of mil©^ from heme. During the six weeks of rain in the desert the plant grows it leaves and flowjrs and perfects its seed. Then it dries up, and leaves only a half -filled gourd, which a thick, hard shiell £«ils against animals and evaporation. The transplanted specimen still remembers the rainy seaoon of six weeks. It wakes, sends out mootktai, stems, and leavias, and then drLos np again until the following year.