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04 May 2008 133 views
 
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Sensitive Plant
In Isaan [North-Eastern Thailand] there are two varieties of Mimosa Pudica growing wild.

Both varieties demonstrate an extreme sensitivity to touch...brush the foliage lightly with your hand, and the leaves immediately collapse so that the ground-covering plant resembles a dead shrub.

The yellow flowered variety, is semi-aquatic, has very few spines, and is edible.

Its cousin, the pink-flowering variety, is more prolific, has more spines,  can tolerate a much drier environment, but is inedible by humans or farm animals.

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