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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 beneficial weeds - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Medical ethnobotany of India - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa pudica (sensitive plant) is used as treatment for skin infections, helminths, urological disease, toothaches and as a contraceptive. The rhizome of Acorus calamus (calamus, or Vacā in Sanskrit) is documented as a treatment for cough, cold, snake bite, asthma, rheumatic fever, and hemorrhoids. [ 2 ]

  5. Mimosa tenuiflora - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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] About 90% of its hundreds of species are found in the Neotropics . [ 2 ]

  8. Plant perception (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...

  9. Leucaena leucocephala - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa leucocephala Lam. Mimosa leucophala Lam. Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia.

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