The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. 1864.03.10. Tecoma radicans. CUL-DAR157.1.60. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2023. RN1

The volumes CUL-DAR157.1-2 contain notes, abstracts etc. for Darwin's long paper and later book Climbing plants (1865). It was also commercially available as a softbound offprint, F834, F834a. See R. B. Freeman's bibliographical introduction. Items CUL-DAR157.1.11-60 were in a folder marked "Twiners". Items CUL-DAR157.1.61-112 were in a folder marked "Leaf-climbers" and items CUL-DAR157.1.114-147 were in a folder marked "Tendrils". Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

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Mar 10 1864

Tecoma Radicans

I observe in hothouse & greenhouse the plant not having been moved for several days that the shoots move from side to side slightly, caused I presume by the changes in the sun, for a plant brought into the room, merely moved down towards the window during the day, & quickly upwards after dark. There were irregularities in some cases caused perhaps by changes in the light. The young shoot 3 or 4 inches long & bearing the growing summit alone moved; the next lower shoot which had produced rootlets at the top did not move.

[Climbing plants, p. 25.]

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