Has anyone heard of a plant dancing? Maybe not, but there is a plant that exists. This shrub is known as ‘Dancing Plant’, ‘Telegraph Plant’, or ‘Semaphore Plant’. This plant is famous for the rapid ...

A Christchurch grown codariocalyx motorius has been caught grooving to Fat Freddy’s Drop. Known as the dancing plant, codariocalyx motorius, is reportedly the only plant in the world known to visibly ...

Why Use Real Plants for Halloween? Real plants beat plastic decorations any day. They move in the wind, cast real shadows, and create an authentic, spooky atmosphere that fake decorations can’t match.

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The French botanist and biologist Francis Hallé has spent 40 years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest. In his Atlas of Poetic Botany, excerpted below, he invites ...

Researchers demonstrate that plants have sensory abilities. Indeed, these would be capable, in the same way as any living being, of analyzing their environment and perceiving odors and sounds. It is ...

Francis Hallé’s aims to show that “the equatorial forest isn’t the ‘green inferno’ that colonialists and adventurers have so often confronted,” but “a universe with magical allure.” Like any good tour ...

Detail from the cover art of Mort Garson's cult electronic album, Mother Earth's Plantasia. At the dawn of the 1970s, Mort Garson installed a Moog synthesizer in his Laurel Canyon home studio. In ...

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Why would a plant be called a telegraph plant (Desmodium gyrans, syn. Codariocalyx motorius)? The leaves move or pulse like a telegraph machine. The telegraph plant has two types of lance-shaped ...

To determine the phenolic content in Codariocalyx motorius root extract and to evaluate its antioxidant properties using various in vitro assay systems. The root extract of the Codariocalyx motorius ...