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  2. Mimosa pudica - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Thigmonasty - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Here's How Often To Water Poinsettias So They'll Thrive - AOL

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    As sensitive plants, they need to be watered properly to ensure they stay happy and thrive in your home. ... For example, Doukas explains, "For a larger pot, the first 1-2 inches may be dry, but ...

  5. Venus flytrap - Wikipedia

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    Ultimately, as the plant relied more on closing around the insect rather than gluing them to the leaf surface, the tentacles so evident in Drosera would lose their original function altogether, becoming the "teeth" and trigger hairs—an example of natural selection utilizing pre-existing structures for new functions.

  6. Chamaecrista nictitans - Wikipedia

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    Chamaecrista nictitans, the sensitive cassia, [2] sensitive partridge pea, [3] small partridge pea [4] or wild sensitive plant, [4] is a herbaceous species of legume widely distributed through the temperate and tropical Americas. [5] It is an annual plant capable of rapid plant movement—its leaflets fold together when touched. [6]

  7. List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) - Wikipedia

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    Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.

  8. Pulvinus - Wikipedia

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    Common examples for pulvinar movements include the night closure movement of legume leaves and the touch response of the sensitive plant Mimosa pudica. Sleep movements ( nyctinastic movements) are controlled by the circadian clock and light signal transduction through phytochrome .

  9. Poikilohydry - Wikipedia

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    Two examples of desiccation-resistant plants are Ramonda and Haberlea. [clarification needed] To test the changes in sucrose levels, Müller et al. put these species into three scenarios then recorded the percent of sucrose in dry weight. [5] As a control, plants were watered daily for 10 days, in these plants sucrose made up ~2% of the dry weight.

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