This Plant Is Very Alive

Eden Baker -- 20-May-2013 06:57:11 pm -- What a responsive plant. Lec Interiors -- 17-May-2013 11:07:05 pm -- Makahiya, lots of it here in the philippines.grows everywhere.. Gerard Carim -- 08-Feb-2013 12:32:22 pm -- in the Philippines we call this plant "makahiya"..which literally means "shy". but ours has some red shades with the greens or predominantly red..im not sure, haven't seen it in more than a decade. Scott Wheeler -- 02-Jan-2013 05:34:38 pm -- Known as sleeping grass in Hawaii. It's roots contain DMT. Matthew McLean -- 06-Dec-2012 08:04:04 am -- The plant doesn't "feel". 1.Cells in an inner layer of the leaf are very compressed. This creates tension in the plant tissue that holds the trap open. 2.Mechanical movement of the trigger hairs puts into motion ATP-driven changes in water pressure within these cells. 3.The cells are driven to expand by the increasing water pressure, and the trap closes as the plant tissue relaxes. Kumar Kshirsagar -- 17-Oct-2012 08:51:30 pm -- in my locale language it called shy tree. David Hobson -- 03-Oct-2012 12:19:23 pm -- That's pretty amazing, Saleem Kothia -- 09-Sep-2012 06:32:29 am -- I thought they were called touch me not plants. Patrick Belinga -- 06-Sep-2012 11:55:21 am -- in cameroon we call it "baby sleep" because as soon as you touch them its like they sleep. Marina Nikolic -- 30-Aug-2012 07:32:06 am -- Amazing :O Sħŭąĭß DysFunk -- 29-Aug-2012 09:56:50 pm -- We Indians call it the "touch me not" plant :P You know it's going to close or whatever after touching, you just can't stop, no matter how old you are you'll just keep touching em. Christian Alexis Santos -- 04-Aug-2012 04:23:08 pm -- I love these but they have thorns. Kaique Ferreira -- 02-Aug-2012 12:49:30 pm -- "Wow! If the plant can "feel" itself being touched, I wonder how the planet feels?" By the same way than YOU feel.. u.u Mushrooman Funguy -- 26-Jul-2012 07:02:22 pm -- THEY HAVE LARNED. Dan Lear -- 24-Jul-2012 07:51:33 pm -- Its a form of tropism, look it up :) Karlene Eva -- 22-Jul-2012 10:49:40 pm -- Wow! If the plant can "feel" itself being touched, I wonder how the planet feels? Georgis Yousef -- 22-Jul-2012 06:44:26 am -- its Mimosa after 10 min it will be open again.