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Mimosa pudica (Sensitive Plant) (pudica = shy), is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched, re-opening within minutes. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a pantropical weed.
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Mimosa pudica (Sensitive Plant) (pudica = shy), is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched, re-opening within minutes. The species is native to South America and Central America, but is now a pantropical weed.
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Picture by Gerald Carr MIMOSA PUDICA . This chemical structure of mimosine is what pharmaceutical companies are working with to find a medical use for this plant.
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The Aphrodite of Cnidus was one of the most famous works of the Attic sculptor Praxiteles (4th century BC). It and its copies are often referred to as the Venus Pudica (modest Venus) type, on account of her covering her groin with her right hand. Variants of the Venus Pudica (suggesting an action to cover the breasts) are the Venus de' Medici or the Capitoline Venus.
English: Venus pudica (“modest Venus”) is a classical stance where a naked female raises her right hand in an attempt to conceal her breast while her left hand tries to hide ...
Illustration in: Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert: "Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien. " Vol. III, 3. (1891)
A PLANTS profile of Mimosa pudica (shameplant) from the USDA PLANTS database ... Click on the image below to enlarge it and download a high-resolution JPEG file.
Plumeria pudica, White Frangipani for sale. ... White Frangipani. Plumeria pudica is perhaps the best Plumeria available today.
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