Call them plant motors. Or plant muscles. Tiny bulges of specialized cells in a mimosa plant can fold its feathery leaflets together in seconds, then relax — and do it again. A new look at these ...

They don’t have brains, nerves, or mouths, but plants are quietly showing signs of intelligence that scientists are only just ...

A mimosa is very simple to make. The beloved brunch beverage is named after the mimosa plant which is also called the Mimosa pudica. It is also known as the sensitive plant. According to National ...

MANY people have seen the way a Mimosa pudica plant, also called the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when they are touched. Fewer know that if you put one into a sealed chamber with a dose of ...

Mimosa pudica, known as touch-me-not plants, quickly move their leaves in response to touch and new research reveals how they do it. In a study led by Masatsugu Toyota at Saitama University in ...

Saitama, Japan: Plants do not possess nerves and muscles that enable rapid movement in animals. However, Mimosa pudica, commonly called touch-me-not, shame or sensitive plant, moves its leaves by ...

Touch the leaves of the aptly named sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica, and it will close them. Prune a shrub, and the shrub will produce a callous around the wound, and likely stimulate new growth ...

The “Mimosa Pudica’, popularly known as the touch-me-not plant is perhaps the most mysterious of all. Ever since mankind discovered this plant, people have been wondering why the plant shuts ...

but to native plants and animals, they can cause disruption and danger. Wilmington staff have been working to clear Chinese Privet, Mimosa and Wisteria, among other invasive species from ...