RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1873.12.10. Mimosa albida. CUL-DAR209.7.70. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR209.7-8 contain notes on heliotropism (phototropism) for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).


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Dec. 10th 1873

To day at 12°, I moved plant, whence it was slightly shaded into the sun, & I watched one of little leaflets, & it moved with surprising quickness, so as to face the sun, as it branched by edges of bigger leaflets, I saw it through weak lens, perceptibly start forward! Light Mimosa albida


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