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'Mimosa' blossoming in an urban setting in Italy. The flowers and tip shoots are harvested for use as cut flowers, when it is known by the florist trade as "mimosa" (not to be confused with the genus of plants called Mimosa). In Italy, [21] Albania, Russia and Georgia the flowers are also frequently given to women on International Women's Day.
Vachellia farnesiana, also known as Acacia farnesiana, and previously Mimosa farnesiana, commonly known as sweet acacia, [12] huisache, [13] casha tree, or needle bush, is a species of shrub or small tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. Its flowers are used in the perfume industry.
Mimosa pudica was one of the four species that significantly extracted and bioaccumulated the pollutant into its leaves. [25] Other studies have found that Mimosa pudica extracts heavy metals such as copper, lead, tin, and zinc from polluted soils. This allows for the soil to gradually return to less toxic compositions.
The Mimosoideae are a traditional subfamily of trees, herbs, lianas, and shrubs in the pea family that mostly grow in tropical and subtropical climates.They are typically characterized by having radially symmetric flowers, with petals that are twice divided (valvate) in bud and with numerous showy, prominent stamens.
Mimosa scabrella (Bracatinga) is a tree in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. It is a cross-pollinating, mostly tetraploid plant with 52 chromosomes. Mimosa scabrella is native to the southern region of Brazil. There it grows naturally in associations called “Bracatingais”.
Mimosa tenuiflora, syn. Mimosa hostilis, also known as jurema preta, calumbi (Brazil), tepezcohuite (México), carbonal, cabrera, jurema, black jurema, and binho de jurema, is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas), and the following ...
Mimosa diplotricha is a species of leguminous woody shrub native to the Neotropics. It is an invasive species and now has a pantropical distribution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is commonly known as the giant sensitive plant , giant false sensitive plant , or nila grass .
Mimosa adenantheroides (M.Martens & Galeotti) Benth. Mimosa adenocarpa Benth. Mimosa adenotricha Benth. Mimosa adpressa Hook. & Arn. Mimosa affinis B.L.Rob. Mimosa aguapeia Barneby; Mimosa albida Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Mimosa albolanata Taub. Mimosa alleniana Morong; Mimosa altoparanensis Burkart; Mimosa amambayensis Hassl. Mimosa amnis-atri ...