Mimosa pudica: A touch sensative tree

in #tree4 years ago

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Mimosa pudica

Some of you might see or hear about this tree. Its not basically tree, but little plant. This is called as Sensitive Tree in Bangladesh. The primitive origin of this plant is Middle America.

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There are about 400 species of this genre. A few can be seen in Bangladesh. Mimosa pudica is the most common out of all species.

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I have found this while was passing by our office mosque road. The speciality of this tree is it closes its leaves with human body contact. Its looks nice. When you touch the leaves, it closes. Very interesting as you can see in the pictures. Before touch, its leaf is open, but after touch is closed. The local people said that this tree has shyness to human being. It feels shy to human touch. But actually there logic and science behind this closeness. According to science explanation, it closes due to an scientific reason of releasing an enzyme or hormones.

This plant not only closes with human touch, but also closes with intence heat of sunlight and darkness to night.

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There are a lot of health benifit of this plant. If you google it, then find out a lot specially weakness problems of men and women. You will find some species of this plant here and there at your yard in Bangladesh. You can plant this little tree at your yard as well.

Mimosa Pudica (আমরা বলি, লজ্জাবতী গাছ)

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Interesting tree that closes to touch and day/nigh. The perfume of the flowers on the species growing where I live is pleasant, sadly the trees are treated as invasive not originating here.

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Interesting tree. Thanks for the information.

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