Since last year, I have been researching about nastic movements in Plants and their ability to serve as models for products that will change form in order to adapt to different situations. Some of this studies I did were showed during lectures I did in Brazil last year.

While trying to find more about the functional anatomy of such plants, like the Mimosa for example, I logged on to what is claimed to be the largest collection on writings by and from Charles Darwin. I was wondering if he had, at that time, written about the Mimosa or other “nastic plants”.

Interestingly, Charles has written about the Mimosa in some of his diary entrances, written in Rio de Janeiro, on the Autum of 1832. It was nothing really technical or anything related to it’s functional morphology but I was left wondering…. If Charles Darwin had a Blog…who would he have linked in his Blogroll.