Trees & Plants

Sensitive plant

Ladhugas

Mimosa pudica L.

Occasional in open areas The roots are useful in leucoderma, vaginopathy, dysentery, jaundice, asthma, fistula, smallpox, spasmodic affections, ulcers and fevers. The root extract can neutralize the lethal affect of snake venom. The leaves are used to treat hydrocele, conjunctivi

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uses: The roots are useful in leucoderma, vaginopathy, dysentery, jaundice, asthma, fistula, smallpox, spasmodic affections, ulcers and fevers. The root extract can neutralize the lethal affect of snake venom. The leaves are used to treat hydrocele, conjunctivitis, cuts and wounds and haemorrhages. The whole plant is used internally for vesical calculi and externally for oedema, rheumatism, myalgia and tumour of the uterus. Th reat & damage: Mimosa pudica can form monotypic ground covers and suppress growth of native species and agricultural crops. The roots produce carbon disulphide which inhibits microbial colonization in the rhizosphere. Management: Intensive grazing can keep growth of mimosa under check. Use of in common herbicides is also found effective in managing the weed. Coir dust can be in used as mulch in agricultural areas to suppress its growth.
family: Fabaceae
synonym: Mimosa hispidula Kunth
description: Straggling herbs; stem 4-angular, armed with black tipped prickles. Leaves alternate, to 12 cm long, pinnate; pinnae 5-10 × pairs; leaflets ca. 20 pairs, oblong, 3-7 0.75- 1 mm, overlapping, apex acute-mucronate, Th base oblique-truncate; rachis, tomentose. Flowers pink on pedunculate head, to 3.5 cm across. Lomentum flat, margin with recurved prickles; seeds 3-5, subrhombic.
native range: Tropical America
distribution: Pantropical, naturalized in most of the non-native areas in
english names: Sensitive plant · Humble plant · Touch-me-not
flowering fruiting: July – January
occurrence maldives: Occasional in open areas