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Old 08-24-2009, 11:26 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Default Re: RED leaves??? Has anyone seen this before?

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Originally Posted by LilRaverBoi View Post
Sounds like you're talking about a 'sensitive plant.' That's the only plant that displays those characteristics I know of anyway. It looks very similar to the mimosa pictured here. I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it's called a Mimosa pudica (so apparently is in the same genus...hence why it looks similar LOL). Is that what you are talking about?

Wikepedia does, in fact, list m. pudica as "makahiya". It grew underfoot nearly everywhere I roamed to play in the fields, and I was nearly always barefeet during summer vacations in the country. Very bad plant to mess with. And mess with it I did--with a stick.
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