Category: Tropical Flowers

This is called the sensitive plant also known as Mimosa Pudica and it is also called touch-me-not plant, shame plant, Makahiya shy plant, humble plant and other names. If you touch the leaves they will move inward and a few minutes later the leaves will fold back up. Sensitive plants have thorny stems and fern …

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The Venus Fly trap is from the swamps of North Carolina and they are also known as carnivorous plants. The most interesting thing about this plant is how it eats. Venus fly traps lure insects by the reddish lining in the leaves and by secretly a fragrant nectar. When bugs land in the jaws of …

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