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Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
Mimosa pudica in normal and touched state.. In biology, thigmonasty or seismonasty is the nastic (non-directional) response of a plant or fungus to touch or vibration. [1] [2] Conspicuous examples of thigmonasty include many species in the leguminous subfamily Mimosoideae, active carnivorous plants such as Dionaea and a wide range of pollination mechanisms.
English: Video showing leaves of Mimosa pudica folding inward after being touched - a good example of thigmonasty. This video has a good resolution. This video has a good resolution. Português: Vídeo mostrando as folhas de sensitiva se fechando depois de serem tocadas - um bom exemplo de sismonasia .
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Touch-Me-Not (Bongseonhwa), a 1956 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young; Touch Me Not (Nu mă atinge), a 2018 film that won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale Berlin Film Festival; The biblical Latin phrase Noli me tangere which appears in John 20:17 can be translated as "Touch me not"
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