Show wonder of plant memory plant memory is a problem for the inquisitive botanist says the dundee advertiser in 1901 a plant allied to the squash and pumpkin was taken to new york from the desert of sonora in mexico and since then it has been kept without watering in a strange climate 3 miles from home dur ing the six weeke of rain in the des t the plant grows its leaves and flowers and perfects its seed then I 1 it dries up and leaves only a water filled gourd which a thick hard shell seals against animals and evaporation the transplanted specimen still remembers me bers the rainy season of six weeks it wakes sends out rootlets stems and leaves and then dries up arcain until the following year |