Aurelia Sonotropia

(urban climbing plant - Nantes )

With its pavilloscopic leaves, Aurelia Sonotropia picks up the sounds from its surroundings whose vibrations it needs in order to grow properly.
During the first few years, its exposed roots will grow amid the dull hum of the city, then each of its shoots will become sensitive to a particular sound and will only stretch out its leaves to pick out that particular sound from the background noise.
But such outstanding adaptability can make Aurelia fragile as more and more leaves possess such acoustic sensitivity that, in the presence of the micro-sounds they generate on unfolding at birth, they immediately close up again to hear them better.