""..Arbus precatorius is so keenly sensitive to all forms of electrical and magnetic influences it is used as a weather plant. Botanists who first experimented with it in London's Kew Gardens found in it a means for predicting cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.""

I happened to read this in 'The Secret Life of Plants' by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird (HarperCollins India 2000)price Rs. 195/-.