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Telegraph plant
The Telegraph Plant (Desmodium motorium, syn. Desmodium gyrans, Codariocalyx motorius), also known as Semaphore plant, is a tropical Asian shrub known for its slow movement of small lateral leaflets which rotate on their axes and jerk up and down with a period of about 3 to 5 minutes.
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