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Mimosa pudica

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Field Notes

Description:

Mimosa pudica (from Latin: pudica "shy, bashful or shrinking"; also called Sensitive Plant), is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, re-opening minutes later. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a pantropical weed.

Notes:

Found growing among the grass. Considered locally as weed .

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As you touched water level of leaves changed and they bent like Seesaw.
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PublishedJune 4, 2011

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