Observationmodel-written summary

Touched leaves move downward and opposing leaves nearly meet.

A claim from XX. An account of the sensitive quality of the tree Averrhoa Carambola. In a letter from Robert Bruce, M.D. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S · 1785

Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Touched leaves move downward and opposing leaves nearly meet.

Taxon
Averrhoa CarambolaAverrhoa carambolat0
Treatment
touchede0
Outcome
move themselves downwards, frequently in so great a degree that the two opposite almost touch one another by their under sidese0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola · TaxonMailamal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“On being touched, they move themselves downwards, frequently in so great a degree that the two opposite almost touch one another by their under sides”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 556–705
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“Averrhoa Carambola”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 52–70

Title

XX. An account of the sensitive quality of the tree Averrhoa Carambola. In a letter from Robert Bruce, M.D. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1785. doi:10.1098/rstl.1785.0020

Other claims from this paper (4)

Record rev-6d97bdabe43c966a4976c6c2af7295b950077fa721952106c9e26d2657e1cb62 · schema claims-v0.9 · position 4 in the model’s answer