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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. List of Mimosa species - Wikipedia

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   The following species in the flowering plant genus Mimosa are accepted by Plants of the World Online. [1] ... Mimosa pudica L. Mimosa pumilio Barneby;

4. 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.

5. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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   Tobacco plant – Nicotiana; Tomato – Solanum lycopersicum; Toothwort – Cardamine concatenata. Cutleaf toothwort – Cardamine concatenata; Purple-flowered Toothwort – Cardamine concatenata; Touch-me-not – Impatiens capensis, Impatiens pallida, Mimosa pudica, Cardamine hirsuta; Traveller's joy – Clematis virginiana; Tread-softly ...

6. List of psychoactive plants - Wikipedia

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   Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for medicinal, religious, and/or recreational purposes. Some have been used ritually as entheogens for millennia. [1] [2] The plants are listed according to the specific psychoactive chemical substances they contain; many contain multiple known psychoactive compounds.

7. Thigmotropism - Wikipedia

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   Mimosa pudica is well known for its rapid plant movement. The leaves close up and droop when touched. However, this is not a form of tropism, but a nastic movement, a similar phenomenon. Nastic movements are non-directional responses to stimuli (e.g. temperature, humidity, light irradiance), and are usually associated with plants.