Study suggests trees sleep at night

Mongabay
By Mike GaworeckiMay 30, 2016, 11:00 am86 pts
We’ve known for centuries that plants are governed by a circadian rhythm just as much as humans: no less a scientific authority than Charles Darwin himself described the daily cycles of leaf motion as “sleep” all the way back in 1880. But a study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science…

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