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Re: What Is A Mimosa?


Hello.

I was growing a Telegraph Plant, Desmodium gyrans, some years back. I
had understood that it's movement was more like quaking aspen, abrupt,
repetitive motion, from the literature I had read.

Somewhere during the course of it, I ended up using strong tobacco tea
to fight off nematode that had come with the potting mix, and I have
never been sure if the behavior of folding up at night is actually
what Desmodium gyrans does rather than the "quaking" or waving that
was described, if I had been sold a Mimosa instead, or any difference
might have been due to the tobacco tea.

Strangely, rather in accordance with how Mimosa is described in "The
Secret Life of Plants", the specimen indeed folded its leaves at
outdoor dusk, rather than when the florescents would go out, and did
this in
spite of the fact that all outdoor light was sheiled from its growing
area as part of an especially austere weatherproofing that year.

I'd be happy to have any additional input on this. 

Thanks & Good Gardening,

Robert Carl chroniapolloni@yahoo.com



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