There is a normal colored baby coming up right beside it.[/quote]
Spending summer vacations in my father's mountainous region home, I remember this creeping plant as "makahiya". It's the Filipino term for "shy" depicting the plant's reaction to touch--dramatically folding its leaves, then reopening.
I played with them on my solitary sojourns through the fields, mercilessly taunting them by brushing their leaves--simply fascinating to see them close, open, and close repeatedly. The plant wreaked revenge with prickly thorns on barefeet--which of course children cavorting in fields always were. The stuff was everywhere--between rice paddies, etc.