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
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 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...
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!!
"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.
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?
OMG this brings back childhood memories! Back in northern Argentina we called them "hierbas vergonzosas" and they grew everywhere, specially near highways.
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
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.
@@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
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"
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")
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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!🥬
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.
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 😥
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).
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.
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
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.
My biology teacher in high school took us outdoors one time. “These plants have nasty movement,” he said. I was confused. “What’s so nasty about it?” I asked. “Nastic movement,” he sighed. “I said NASTIC.”
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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! 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣
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”.
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! :)
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.😅
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.
My Grandma had one of these potted in her office. Called it the Sensitive plant. I poked it so damned many times over the years. I bet it needed therapy.
Swordsmen use to give their swords a will of their own with plant extract potions so when an insidious humanoid impostor trespass in their area the sword would pivot on the frog and tip the swordsman to obey the sword draw the blade and slay the cunning monster, seldom having blood. Things like make the scabbard out of white oak or red maple next pour sorghum cold press milk down the scabbard mixed 50/50 with olive oil sword on hip balance 70/30. In Quest of the Holy Grail Potion~Good-luck!❤
This plant is found plentiful in Southern India, in malayalam it's called "thotta vaadi", meaning "wilts when touched". As kids, me and brother used love touching it and seeing the leaves close one by one.
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.
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 remember seeing these all the time in Hawaii when i lived there as a kid :) my parents told me it’s called sleeping grass. Cuz they go to sleep when you touch them
It's called as "Makahiya" in the Philippines, which has the root word of "hiya" which means shyness, because it gets shy when people or something touches it
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?
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!"
So, you're saying plants envy our digestión as we envy their photosynthesis?
@@Svensk7119 oh no
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
In malaysia we call it semalu
In thailand, it's called "mai-ya-larp" (ไมยราพ)
Vietnamese us call this plant "cây xấu hổ" aka "shame plant". Ye not very creative haha
In the Philippines, we call it "Makahiya" from the root word "hiya" which means "shy" in English.
Ayee Indonesia, sama 🗿
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
That's cute, i'm brazilian too
Tinha um monte na minha casa, não sei oque aconteceu com elas kkkk
haha gonna borrow that whenever I see kids and mimosa plants
That's so cute and sadddd
Lol that’s smart
When someone tells you to go outside and touch grass, but not even the grass wants you to touch it
lmaoo
The plant is quite common in my country.. it is even pleasant to the skin... It feels like rough and thorny.
I love these plants so much. I've always heard them called 'shy' rather than 'shame'.
Same!
Some languages have the same word for shy and shame.
@@someonejustsomeone1469 Yeah, but not English.
I wish they was in the uk but they don’t exist here
Since everyone's doing it, it's called "Chhui Mui" in India, which means sensitive or over-dainty. Pretty cute tho
In WB its 'Lojjaboti'
I call it Chhuin Mukhi (shy faced)
In Puerto Rico we have this type of plant, and it's locally called "Moríviví", which translates to "I died and lived".
in Brazil we call it "malícia" (malice) or "dormideira" (sleeper)
@@talcbba In Costa Rica we call this plant "dormilona", which also translates as "sleeper" 😅
I live in the English Caribbean, we call this on my particular island sleeping beauty
Damn, beat me to this comment...
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 my country we call them "Dormilonas" which translates to sleepies or snoozies
Same here
You could have told us the country you are from.
@@byrlink Ah yeah, my bad, i'm from Colombia
@@starlightfox1211
Jaja, yo también.
We call them like that in El Salvador too
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."
That's exactly what we call it in Trinidad too. I also remember them having thorns and you would get pricked when their leaves closed.
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...
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!
It's also know as a pest tbh
eh humans suckk@@mambayt9596
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 🤣
Yas! Pilipino!
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
Filipino here!!! Di ka nag-iisa! Also for everyone reading, "Makahiya" stems from "hiya" which either means shame or shy! Both appropriate names!
In Puerto Rico, we call them Moribibis
would have commented about makahiya but finally a fellow filipino
I know it's probably not as interesting as carnivorous plants but I'd love to see more videos of common houseplants like you did with orchids.
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?
We still use it quite often in germany! Most times we would just refer to a sensetive person as a "mimose" but the phrase is also not uncommon
As a german I can still relate to that. Mine used that phrase too.
It's used in Hungarian too to say if you think someone is too sensitive, like "he's such a mimosa"
Still know the phrase, but haven't heard it used in a while, only when I was a child
Here in Costa Rica we call them "Dormilonas" or "sleepy ones". It's very common in our yards and kids love to play with them :)
In Brazil is "Dormideira" "the one who sleeps"
Ah yes. A plant I can relate. An introverted one!
is a turtle but in plant version
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
I love this plant. When I was a boy in Colombia i used to play with them all the time
Now are you a girl? Cool
I did the same in Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 when I visited as a child!!!
I still love playing with this plant. Where I'm from we call them Moribibis
same in Malaysia. but now I kinda feel bad that they said it costs the plants energy 😅
4:01 I cringed when I saw the hand casually brushing that plants. It's usually really thorny
I can't imagine how terrible it would hurt
@@CryoflareTheWolf one day I was pulling weed with my father and I try to pull that plant. Needless to say, my hand covered in thorns
Ouch
This is everywhere in the Philippines. Used to love playing with them as a kid.
same.. makahiya 🤣
Same!!!
I'm a teenager now and I still do!
Literally everywhere and sometimes there's the disappointing fake makahiya that doesn't close.
@@purdoy25 there's literally a bush of fake Makahiya beside our house and i always get dissapointed when I remember it's fake
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.
Sureee
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.
Yup, this plant is everywhere in my country. We call it 'semalu' which more or less means shy/shame.
In Indonesia we called it Putri Malu, of Shy Princess
@@advanceringnewholder yea boi my home country
I appreciate the time it takes for you and your team to share these exceptionally interesting plants with us!
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.
Tree? Wow... I would love to see a tree version of that. We used to have only these ground hugging shrubs to play with when we were kidd.
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!!
"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.
Being “shy” also implies consciousness and the ability to feel the need to shy away from things
@@Bull3tBikes yeah hut shy sounds better than shame
In my country they're called shy princess. I agree with you, shame is harsh word
@@noustrant putri malu, Indonesia ?
In my country it is named " Makahiya", Hiya means shy on our country here in the Philippines
In Germany we call them "Mimose" but that is also a word for someone who is very sensitive. I think it fits the plant very well
New Animalogic episode: Cool, I'll watch this later when I'm bored
New Floralogic episode: Clicking that link so fast
Same here, nerd of botany
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?
OMG this brings back childhood memories! Back in northern Argentina we called them "hierbas vergonzosas" and they grew everywhere, specially near highways.
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.
One of these grew near my childhood home, where my mother would tell me not to harass the poor thing :P
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
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.
Wouldn't Shy plant be a better name? Maybe I'm just biased, to the Mahiyain.
My brother calls them “very sensitive plants”
Makahiya tawag namin ehh, Pero ganon don yun😂
@@anonymousdratini that's what I've heard them called. Don't really like shame being associated with touching 🤔
@@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
Its name mean its mimics shyness
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"
People do be saying "I have a spirit animal". Bro', I found my spirit plant right there!
TRUE
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")
In Cambodia, we call this "ព្រះខ្លប" or "Presh Clorb" It's everywhere in my farming field. it's also use for traditional medicine.
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.
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!
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.
I usually called them "Touch me nots", not sure if something else goes by that though
SAMEE 😂🤣😅🤣🤣😅
There is that one species with the exploding seed pods that caterpillars eat, often to get yeeted across the forest.
YAAAA
In Malaysia, this weed is called “Pokok Semalu” which means Shy Plant and it’s literally everywhere
idk man that don’t look like weed to me
@@robjohnston1026 it's a weed in malaysia.
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).
@@muzallisam5068 i meant marijuana
@@robjohnston1026 plants doesn't have to be woody
Grass also Plants
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.
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!🥬
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.
There was an empty lot beside my house full of that plant when I was a kid. In Brazil, we call them "dormideira" ("sleeping one").
Thanks for watching!
Whoever the mixed lady is in the orange is so cute
lol why is no one mentioning how badly these plants hurt! they're thorny af! 😭😭
@@DustyMcFarland same feels
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 😥
Plant pulls back because it doesn't like to be touched.
Humans: neat, touch it more.
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).
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.
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
Ive stumbled upon them before! In puerto rico we call them “Mori Vivir” Which roughly translates to death and life
In Brazil we call this plant dorme-dorme, meaning sleepy plant.
Really cool video! I always wondered why they closed to touch when i was a kid.
Have very fond memories of this plant, grew everywhere in Houston
My grandpa used to take me to his farm and I would loom for them every single time! They were so fun to touch! Ah,The memories.
Yeah, I'm from Brazil and I used to play with these all the time as a kid.
Lol! We grew up calling this plant 'Ti Marie' in the Caribbean. This was my favourite thing to play with on the way home from school.
We call this sleeping beauty in Grenada
I forgot this plant existed, I remember playing with this plant all the time when I lived in Puerto Rico.
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.
This plant is socially awkward.
Guess I'm a plant. 🤨
My biology teacher in high school took us outdoors one time.
“These plants have nasty movement,” he said.
I was confused. “What’s so nasty about it?” I asked.
“Nastic movement,” he sighed. “I said NASTIC.”
I, as a Filipino, got really hyped seeing this on my recommended
indeed, I lived with that
We have them here in the Caribbean too
man, i love the tags at the end. tasha's mistakes are so fun!
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
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 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.
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.
judging from the comments, i dont think it will get endangered anytime soon
@@overcookedwater1947 It's also invasive in quite a few places, so it's quite frankly not endangered enough.
@@Quazex definitely
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.
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! 😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣
Oho, in Indonesia we called it quite similar. "Putri Malu" means "Shy Princess", putri could be a girl or princess depending on the context.
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”.
Huh I remember these while i was in the Philippines for a few years🥺 I used to play with them every chance I got
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 been calling them sleeping grass since I was a kid
In Hawaii we called it sleeping grass too!
I've seen many of these plants here in Brazil, and to this day I find it very impressive that it closes when touched.
I love plants. Love the video and the bloopers at the end. You are too silly. Thanks Tasha!
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.😅
We have these plants in Texas on the gulf coast. As a kid we always touched them on the way looking for honeysuckles and black berries.
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.
in the Philippines, this is called _Makahiya_ which translates into 'Shy' in English. omg, the childhood memories i get by touching this plant. ✨😽
Imagine touching that plant and it closes while blushing and saying "b-baka!"
😂
Always loved these plants, there were a bunch out in the woods where I grew up, east coast USA. Childhood memories.
In Puerto Rico, we call them "Morí Viví"
Meaning "I lived I died"
😂
My Grandma had one of these potted in her office. Called it the Sensitive plant.
I poked it so damned many times over the years. I bet it needed therapy.
In the Philippines (Pampanga province) we call it Makahiya, meaning "Very shy" or "The shy one"
Ive seen some here in Texas. I like pointing them out to people. I always found these so interesting!
Another plant I know does this is starfruit.
Not as sensitive, but still pretty cool to know that other plants evolved the same mechanism.
When I was a kid this scares me and scared to touch. It’s probably because of the movie The Ruins.
Swordsmen use to give their swords a will of their own with plant extract potions so when an insidious humanoid impostor trespass in their area the sword would pivot on the frog and tip the swordsman to obey the sword draw the blade and slay the cunning monster, seldom having blood.
Things like make the scabbard out of white oak or red maple next pour sorghum cold press milk down the scabbard mixed 50/50 with olive oil sword on hip balance 70/30.
In Quest of the Holy Grail Potion~Good-luck!❤
The title of the video made me think: Am I a plant?
This plant is found plentiful in Southern India, in malayalam it's called "thotta vaadi", meaning "wilts when touched". As kids, me and brother used love touching it and seeing the leaves close one by one.
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
Thank you for doing a video on this plant!! These grew where I'm from and I always wondered what it was!
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.
I was playing around with these plants earlier today. Glad that I found this video today.
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 remember seeing these all the time in Hawaii when i lived there as a kid :) my parents told me it’s called sleeping grass. Cuz they go to sleep when you touch them
In my country, Puerto Rico, those plants are called "Morivivi"
It's called as "Makahiya" in the Philippines, which has the root word of "hiya" which means shyness, because it gets shy when people or something touches it
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?
If my cheeseburger started moving on my plate I wouldn't eat it either lol.