Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Touch Me Not plant

Hindi Name : छुइमुइ | Scientific Name : Mimosa pudica
Family : Fabaceae
Uses : It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as animal food and a medicine, has environmental uses and social uses and for food. It majorly possesses antibacterial, antivenom, antifertility, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, aphrodisiac, and various other pharmacological activities. The herb has been used traditionally for ages, in the treatment of urogenital disorders, piles, dysentery, sinus, and also applied on wounds.
Native: Mexico to Tropical America
General Description:

It is an annual, perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. Straggling subshrubs; stem 4-angular, without prickles. Leaves alternate to 12 cm long; rachis, tomentose; pinnae 5-10 pairs; leaflets 20 pairs, oblong, 3-7 by 0.75-1 mm, overlapping, base oblique-truncate, apex acute-mucronate. Flowers pink. Lomentum flat, margin with recurved prickles; seeds 3-5, subrhombic. It has sensitive soft grey green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched and cooled.