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A mimosa cocktail consists of champagne (or other sparkling wine) and chilled citrus juice, usually orange juice. It is often served in a tall champagne flute at festive occasions such as brunch , weddings, or as part of business or first class service on some passenger railways and airlines. [ 1 ]
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 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.
The first definition of a cocktail as an alcoholic beverage appeared three years later in The Balance and Columbian Repository (Hudson, New York) May 13, 1806. [4] Traditionally, cocktail ingredients included spirits, sugar, water and bitters; [5] however, this definition evolved throughout the 1800s to include the addition of a liqueur. [6] [5]
Acacia dealbata, sometimes known as mimosa, a species of Acacia; Albizia julibrissin, sometimes known as mimosa in the U.S., a species of tree in the family Fabaceae; Iolaus mimosae, the mimosa sapphire butterfly; Neurostrota gunniella, the mimosa stem-mining moth; Homadaula anisocentra, also known as the mimosa webworm, a moth
Dichrostachys cinerea, known as sicklebush, Bell mimosa, Chinese lantern tree or Kalahari Christmas tree (South Africa), is a legume of the genus Dichrostachys in the family Fabaceae. [ 2 ] Other common names include omubambanjobe (Tooro Uganda), acacia Saint Domingue (French), el marabú (Cuba), " Mpangara" (Shona), Kalahari-Weihnachtsbaum ...
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 ]
Acacia dealbata, the silver wattle, blue wattle [3] or mimosa, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to southeastern Australia and widely introduced in other warm climates.