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Mimosa

Mimosa pudica

Photo by veneta.tashev
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Field Notes

Description:

Small tree. At first you can't tell it has bloom, just a pink glow. Only on closer inspection you can see the blossoms pictured.

Habitat:

Tropical

Notes:

I wasn't going to post this one, because I don't have the easiest picture to identify it, but while looking at near by spottings, I found the same type of plant pictured by someone else.

Species ID Suggestions

Surinam Powder Puff

Calliandra surinamensis

Comments (10)

Thank you! You have quite a collection of spottings!
Thanks for your comments and help. I wasn't even positive about my flower. I love this. So pretty! Thanks again!
Wow, this little blossom has generated quite a discussion. I will be sure to look for the tree today, it was in the next door hotel. And it was a tree, I'll add that to the description.
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Calliandra_haematocephala.htm
Thanks for the great information Mr S Frazier. I just look at the leaves, it doesn't have spine, and for me its very similar to plants in the green park of my faculty.
Yes, not the genus but the colloquial "mimosa" flower and leaves, but again not M. pudica which has a spherical flower head...."The taxonomy of the genus Mimosa has had a tortuous history, having gone through periods of splitting and lumping, ultimately accumulating over 3,000 names, many of which have either been synonymized under other species or transferred to other genera. In part due to these changing circumscriptions, the name "Mimosa" has also been applied to several other related species with similar pinnate or bipinnate leaves, but are now classified in other genera, most commonly to Albizia julibrissin (silk tree) and Acacia dealbata (sattle)."
Surely not of Mimosa genus...
Make me sure that its a relatively more than meters sized shrubs ... :)
It is an old picture, but I am in the area, so I'll try to find the plant in question.
Well it looks like a mimosa all right but I don't know about M. pudica. Is your plant a "sensitive plant"...does it "shrink" when touched?
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PublishedMarch 15, 2012

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