BenSibs Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Hi There, I stumbled across some information about "Palm Grass" speculating that it acts as an antenna for geomagnetic fields (palm-1.jpg). I've got a lot of these plants growing on my property and at first observation I'm 99% sure it does oscillate randomly and without effect from wind. I put up a video showing my first observation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egQXFflbPwU I found one inconclusive article about it on the internet here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11870160_Biological_rhythms_an_analysis_of_the_archives It seems as tho this is all just speculation, I'm thinking of conducting some amateur science on the plant to determine what causes the leaves to oscillate. I was thinking of first potting the plant, putting it in a perspex container (wind free environment) and observing it. If it still moves I would like to run some electromagnetics near it to see if i can influence it. I'm super curious about this plant as I've never heard of a plant doing this before. If you have any tips on how I can test it please let me know (keep it simple please), or if you have any information please post it. The plant also goes by these names: Molineria capitulata Palm Grass Weevil Lilly Curculigo I'm new to the forums, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I looked through a few sci databases and came up with the same reference. Looking at the author there is another similar publication (Minorsky & Bronstein, Plant Phys, 2006, 142:40-44). But it seems to be very niche research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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