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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 .
Medicinal Avoid Comments Bashful mimosa: Mimosa pudica: Ground cover for tomatoes, peppers: predatory beetles: Used as a natural ground cover in agriculture Caper spurge: Euphorbia lathyris: Moles: Used in French folk medicine as an emetic and purgative [1] Many domesticated animals can eat it, although it is poisonous to humans. [1] Primarily ...
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The following species in the flowering plant genus Mimosa are accepted by Plants of the World Online. [1] About 90% of its hundreds of species are found in the Neotropics . [ 2 ]
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 ...
An infant suffers from cold-like symptoms, vomiting, seizures and encephalitis from a brain infection caused by the Powassan virus which he got from a tick bite; a biology professor investigates rough patches in his mouth, determining a parasite to be at fault, which he finds to be Gongylonema pulchrum, one of the rarest human parasites on the ...