#sensitive plant
Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica)
This plant will bring hours of entertainment to kids of any age. The Sensitive Plant actually moves when you touch its leaves. The fine leaflets open in the daylight, yet when touched will collapse downward. Give them an hour or so and up they’ll come again. As plants mature, they form small pink puffs of bloom adding an extra benefit to this unique species.
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My mimosa pudica before blooming, after blooming and after a pruning
Happy World Naked Gardening Day!
Per WNGD.org, “Gardening naked is not only a simple joy, it reminds us–even if only for those few sunkissed minutes–that we can be honest with who we are as humans and as part of this planet.”
These flowers are a ground cover called Mimosa strigillosa. When I bought my house years ago a few popped up one spring. I loved them and mowed around them. I have continued to do so, along with sparing any other spring flowers so that each spring I have a beautiful menagerie of flowers, butterflies, and bumblebees. Only after the reproduction process is finished do they get mowed down until the next blossoms appear.
The Mimosa strigillosa is also called the sensitive plant as when you touch the feathered leaves they respond by curling up towards your touch. Tiny Leaf Finger Hugs!
This photo is also why I needed to climb my column and half wall last weekend while trying to activate the remote shutter! I seriously need a photographically inclined nudist friend or girlfriend!
Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, is an amazing example of rapid plant movement.
The plant is sold as a novelty for children [YouTube].
