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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 ...
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 .
[a] This subgroup of the rosids encompasses 28 families of trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous perennials and annuals. The roots of many of the species host bacteria that fix nitrogen into compounds the plants can use. [4] [5] The trees of this subgroup dominate many temperate forests. [6]
Mimosa pudica also show thermotropism by the collapsing of leaf petioles leading to the folding of leaflets, when temperature drops. [1] The term "thermotropism" was originated by French botanist Philippe Van Tieghem in his 1884 textbook Traité de botanique. Van Tieghem stated that a plant irradiated with an optimum growth temperature on one ...
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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 ]