Plants Might Move with the Moon

[Anomalocaris]

Plants typically move too slowly or too subtly for the unaided human eye to appreciate. Instead, we rely on time-lapse photography to reveal their waving branches, unfurling tendrils and grasping vines. But most of those movements are solely initiated by the plants themselves. Now at least one scientist thinks there is an outside influence tugging on the Earth’s vegetation.

Plants Might Move with the Moon Just as the Oceans Do with Tides

[Rlyeh]

Misread the title, thought it said 'Plants might move to the moon'.

[ROGER]

The moon's effect on a plant or even a human are so small as to be negligible . I would be more interested in the time difference or speed between the moon and Earth surface . Different gravities should have some small , but measurable effect I would think .

[back to earth]

Numerous cyclic patterns ( 6 main ones) relating to the Moon effect agriculture and wildlife (and hence ) husbandry , its been known about and utilised successfully since ... well, since we have had agriculture.

[Saitung]

Old, but still interesting news.

The moon's gravimetric influence on earth has long been proven. Yet its specific affects on ocean tides, plants, animals, and humans is the question. We have heliocentric plants like the well known Sunflower, why not Lunacentric ones?

Edited August 24, 2015 by Saitung

[PrisonerX]

I would expect plants to be both effected by, and respond to, reflected sunlight from the Moon. This is not so surprising an article, although it is rather pleasant to know that scientists are studying things of this nature.