Meanwhile, on Floratube: "These strange hairless mammals will keep touching you if you move your leaves! If you're a grad student, help us understand how animals learn!"
Since everyone else is mentioning the plant's name in their mother tongue; in Indonesia, it's called Putri Malu (Shy Princess) and I think it's pretty cute
Here in Brazil my father used to trick me and my siblings as kids, saying that if you touched and told the plant "Maria sua mãe morreu" (Mary your mother died) it would get sad and shrink. We all tested it then started crying and apologizing to the plant lol
we call it "MAKAHIYA" right here in the Philippines, used to see them alot when I was young..now not so much. I kinda missed it tbh. being a kid back then requires only the littlest things to be entertained 🤣
Hay salamat, kala ko ako lang nanonood (oh thank goodness, though I was the only one watching) Makahiya, we have lots of it here in Gensan, though not as often as it used to be, we can still find some here and there
My mother used to say: "sei nicht so eine mimose." Which literally means: "don't be such a mimosa." Meaning to not be overly sensitive or stop moping. don't know, if the phrase is used by many germans today. Is that common in other languages?
Mimosa in portuguese for sure relates to a person who is "overly sensitive". Though the meaning is a bit hazy to me. Could also relate to a person being sweet kinda?
Loved this! But you forgot to mention that these plants do have thorns, it's on their stems. If you're walking barefooted and you walk on this plant, You're gonna regret it Soo much!
In Brazil, my grandmother call this plant "Maria fecha a porta", in English that means "Mary close the door", and when we go to touch the leaves she says "Mary, close the door because a cow is coming."
Ou mais comumente Dorme Dorme... ~engraçado que eu lembro do pessoal chamar também de "inça de gato" porque quando grande é cheia de espinho e vira um arbusto desgraçado de conseguir passar por/sair dele...
Yeeeah I remember these! I used to have fun touching em all to get them closed! I completely forgot what they were called, but yup, we called them Moriviví for sure! Fun times XD
In Montana (USA) we have a similar plant that everyone calls "Trail Blazer" there are a lot of local stories about people getting lost in the woods and it helping them find their way out
Weird enough, back at grade 5 we were assigned a mini activity to conduct a theory or hypothesis on why these plants fold, none of us knew, not even our teacher, and my genius just suddenly hypothesized "maybe it's a defence against predators". I never get to look up if I was right, until now.
@@nerfherder4284 I’m not sure what you mean. There’s nothing wrong with being sensitive and not like being touched. My brother and I liked the name because we’re autistic and related to the plant’s reaction to unexpected touch, and we’ve both been called “very sensitive” before. lol
I kid you not, I JUST came back from a trip to the museum and they had these things. It was so, so cool seeing and interacting with them first-hand! It's such a surreal and beautiful thing to observe!
OMG this brings back childhood memories! Back in northern Argentina we called them "hierbas vergonzosas" and they grew everywhere, specially near highways.
"Shame" plant is a terrible name. I've heard this called the "shy" plant, and Tasha called it that in the video. Plus "shame" implies consciousness, guilt, and the ability to do something to feel guilty of.
That plant brings me so much memories... like crying after stepping on them when I was a kid 🤣🤣 The name I learn growing was: Morivivi ( I die I live). It's in Spanish. Another plant I remember, growing along "morivivi" was one that the dried pouch of seeds explodes when it touches water. Obviously I don't know the name, but it would be fun knowing it. Great video. Love it!!
We have a Mimosa tree here in West TN. Gets up to bout 20 ft, makes fluffy pink and white flowers, is loved by hummingbirds, and has the same type of leaves but they are way slower to react to touch.
I’m from Puerto Rico, and I remember this plants been called “morí víví” which translated to “I died I lived” because they look like they had died and then come back to life.
I had a small mimosa plant when i was in middle school, it first it closed it's leaves as soon as i touched it but i think i desensitised it because it didn't close its leaves at all after a while if it was touched, only at night. And we had huge mimosa trees in a part of town what weren't sensitive to touch either.
These grew all over my neighborhood growing up. They were considered a common weed. Usually folks called it “touch-me-not” or “sensitive weed”. As kids we *loved* them! We had so much fun brushing the leaves and watching it close up. I also loved the fuzzy pink flowers it grew. I’ve never seen it where I live now and never considered growing it as a house plant. I might have to do that now. Show my kid the joys of touch-me-nots.
I saw this plant when I was younger near the road so whenever I see it I would of course touch it and honestly it was one of the reasons why I would walk there even though it's farther from my house. Always love passing by it
In our country, the mimosa pudica has a very weird folktale/legend, talking about a girl that was turned into a plant wished by her parents to protect her from the bandits that would potentially kidnap her or kill her. But that's without context tho there's still more story regarding to this plant. The Makahiya!🥬
In the Philippines in my province this plant is called the "Makahiya" due to the very reason that when it senses sudden movement it closes it's leaves like it's shy : hiya in Tagalog and exposes it barbed stems to protect itself.
In Australia those flowers we'd call wattle. So the cells increase or decrease in size. But how does the water enter and exit the cell in the first place?
Haha! I always knew the plant we had at home was a mimosa! Turns out the rest of my class was right too though, they just rather believed the other kid who said mimosa were just yellow flowers than me who claimed it was a plant which closes their leaves if touched.
That was a brave swipe, those have some sharp pickers. Called TiMarie in Trinidad btw or the sensitive plant. I didn't realise mimosa flowers were so similar. The roots of those with the pink flowers are supposed to be a natural antibiotic.
i dont remember what we called it but i always said it was "the plant that closes when you touch it" and we had so much of those at our school until they eventually got rid of the savannah that had all the nature. its a shame that happened. there also used to be many clovers and we often found 4 leaf ones too but those also disappeared with the savannah
It's called ”hti ga yone” (pronounced tea ga yown) in the Burmese language, which means "one that twitches from touch". . Also we eat them as side dish salad or meal accompanying item for sauce dips.
I was wondering if the title called it the "shame plant" because they literally translated "semalu" to malu meaning shame when malu depending on context can be shy as well (which in this case is more accurate).
this has been my favorite plant for yearssss, i saw it as a child in some plant museum type thing. its also called "tuntokasvi or tuntomimosa" in finnish, straight translation is "touchplant or touchmimosa"
We have these in Hawaii and ive shown my kids how awesome they are, i also taught them that it takes a lot of energy for a plant to move like that to to not touch em too much.
The plant has thorns, just small ones that only hurt when you’re trying to purge an area of them. They’re pretty invasive in the subtropics, and I’ve even heard that they’re one of the 70 some odd pairing plants for the banisteriopsis capi/ayahuasca vine.
Can we please do a conservation episode? Thousands of flamingos have died in Turkey and I've been asking for a flamingo episode for years. Animal logic, please discuss this bird before we lose them all 😥
in Philippines, we call it "Makahiya" in Tagalog the root word "Hiya" mean either shy or shame depends on how you use it btw, I recognize that "Vitameatavegamin skit" on one of the outtakes when Lucy become drunk on it! 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣
I kept touching similar-looking plants on treks in Seattle and Oregon hoping they turn out to be this as we have plenty of them in India. In India, in the Gujarati language, they're called "Sharmilu jhaad" (shy tree).
I've seen this plant for the first time in Vietnam and I was in awe by how strange and cute it was, for such a "simple" plant. Quite funny. Let's hope we're not endangering this plant when having fun caressing it and making it close, because it sure uses quite a lot of the plant energy just for a giggle.
Here in my corner of Brazil, we called them "dormideiras", which would roughly translate as "sleepers" or "sleepy ones". We used to have a little rhyme about them too, "dorme, dorme, dormideira, até chegar segunda-feira" ("Sleep, sleep, sleeper, until Monday comes")
aww! i remember playing with this plant a long time ago with a few friends but since everyone in our class touches them its kinda like a jackpot if you find a opened one and a competition on whos gonna touch it
Thank you so much for the video!!!! I´ll make a correction and add that they´re found in the Caribbean as well. I´m from Puerto Rico and we call them "Moriviví" (translation: to die and live).
Ahhhhh I remember first seeing these at the catwalks of our school... I wanted to get them but the school doesnt allow to bring plants outside of campus, plus it was thorny so I gave up lol. I just wanted to plant these so I can enjoy touching the plants everyday before we leave school.😅
Mimosa also grows in South-East Asia, and is called "Shy daughter", in the Indo-Malay language, putri (daughter) malu (shy). They do have thorns, which is why people in those areas usually treat them as undesirable weeds, as they aren't fun to walk on. No need to worry about them though, they reproduce quite readily and rapidly, and are quite difficult to get rid of.
When I was living in Manchester, I used to go to a garden centre with my school. I can’t remember why we did it but it would always end with us touching the plants seen in the video. We call them “sleeping plants”.
Another interesting species would be: Boquila trifoliolata This species can apparently mimic leaves quite well. This can includes leaf veins, size, even spines can be mimicked. The vines can also mimic more than one species / leaf at a time. It can also mimic plastic leaves. Researchers aren't sure of how it does this.
I've been scrolling for any comments about Tasha! She rules! Omg!! First they had me crushing on Danielle. Now they're throwing Tasha at me too? Just Stahp!! 😭 I can't with these girls!! lol
We have Sunshine Mimosa here in Florida. I believe it’s found in a bunch of the southern states in the US. It’s cool that you focused on one species of mimosa, but don’t most mimosas react to touch, heat, or light? Like almost all 400 types of mimosa all over the world?
We have a bunch of them in our backyard.. and i always think that I have powers where every living things I touch dies... It can really be quite immersive.😆
In North America we have a similar plant we call "partridge peas" or the "sensitive plant". They are about the most tenacious weed ever. They never give up. lawnmowers do not deter them. These plants have extrafloral nectar producing structures to attract wasps and ants. They want to be cleansed of the vermin that will eat them.
Huh, in Michigan (a state in the U.S.), we usually call this by the common name "sensitive plant". I loved the Mimosa pudica I kept as a kid. It's been neat to see all the common names in these comments.
We have tons of this in our backyard. It's so common that many people would just literally step on it or remove it from the ground since they consider it just a random grass growing everywhere
This must be the plant that James Cameron drew influence from for that scene in avatar. The one that has Jake touching the plants and them shriveling up.
While the Mimosa Pudica is a tropical plant, It thrives here in Illinois and is hardy. I have one brought by birds. I decided to leave it be and now it is almost 12ft tall. This year was the first year it bloomed.
I used to work in Greenhouses and Grounds at my local college and we grew all kinds of plants. We propagated these babies, among many other things, and they have a very distinctive odour when potting up and disturbing the roots of the seedlings. Not a nice smell, but another cool adaptation. We call them sensitive plants here (or Mimosa) and I had one as a house plant until I killed it... :/
in the philippines, it's named: "makahiya plant" and that means "shy plant" my mother loved these when she was young, her and her friends always played with this and so do i! :)
I've heard some people refer to this plant as touch-me-not. It doesn't grow where I live, but I have seen an entirely unrelated plant called touch-me-not for its seed pods that burst on contact. Its scientific name is Impatiens capensis, and it's also called common jewelweed. It always pays to include scientific names if you're addressing a global audience, as many common names can refer to multiple species depending on context.
