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Plants have memories too!

Plants may have

They trained Mimosa plants' short- and long-term memories under both high and low-light environments by repeatedly dropping water on them using a custom-designed apparatus (Mimosa folds its leaves in response to the drop). They found Mimosa plants stopped closing their leaves when they learnt that the repeated disturbance had no real damaging consequence.