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Old 08-24-2009, 03:49 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Default Re: RED leaves??? Has anyone seen this before?

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.

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