plants

United States
May 4, 2009 11:44pm CST
i got this awesome plant today when you or anything touches it it closes it like an amerosa its wired but it doesn't eat bugs it just does it then unfolds slowly had one when i was little my son loves it the man say it takes awhile to get it big oh yea it looks like a fern hope i don't kill it like i did my old mans fern he was mad i was sad it was a sentimental thing to him
2 responses
@nielcdg (709)
• Philippines
5 May 09
If its thorny and has small pink pineapple shaped flowers with fluff, then you are looking at a mimosa plant in our language its called "MAKAHIYA" meanining shy one. I hope its the right plant that I'm describing :) Its basically a weed in our country a very hardy but fun one, kids play with its leaves, but they will never open again if you remove them from the stem when trying to make open and close.
• United States
5 May 09
it has no thorns just little leaves that is very interesting that mimosa is what the man said that is neat its a weed there he did say they were hard to find i will be very careful with it
• United States
5 May 09
i will take a pic and post it tomorrow my husband knows how to do that i don't lol
• United States
5 May 09
My roommate just got one of those plants the other day. Well rather she got the seeds to grow one of those plants. She's been growing them for awhile and she's rather amused at how they work. I admit, I'm alittle interested in them but I'm not into plants as much as she is.