Mimosa pudica also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, action plant touch-me-not, shameplant the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken.

Mimosa pudica also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, action plant touch-me-not, shameplant the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken.

Hand touching small leaves of mimosa pudica plant also known as shameplant, touch me not, thottavadi and sleepy plant during heavy wind. The green leaf of this sensitive plant fold inward if we touch.

Mimosa Pudica Leaves Folding Up After Touch. Reaction of Shy Plant Leaves Closing from Hand Contact

Mimosa pudica or shy plant. The species epithet, pudica, is Latin for shrinking, alluding to its shrinking reaction when contact or touched by a human hand