Mimosa pudica flower in a meadow grassland in West Bengal India cover photo - 244816435

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Photo title: Mimosa pudica flower in a meadow grassland in West Bengal India
Author: Rantony1184

Cover photo description:
The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age. It can hang very low and become floppy. The stem is slender, branching, and sparsely to densely prickly, growing to a length of 1.5 m 5 ft. The leaves are bipinnately compound, with one or two pinnae pairs, and 10â€“26 leaflets per pinna. The petioles are also prickly. Pedunculate stalked pale pink or purple flower heads arise from the leaf axils in mid summer with more and more flowers as the plant gets older. The globose to ovoid heads are 8â€“10 mm 0.3â€“0.4 in in diameter excluding the stamens. On close examination, it is seen that the floret petals are red in their upper part and the filaments are pink to lavender. Pollens are circular with approximately 8 microns diameter.

age also approximately arise axils become becomes bipinnately branching circular close compound creeping densely diameter erect examination excluding filaments floppy floret flower flowers gets globose growing hang heads lavender leaf leaflets leaves length low microns mimosa older pairs pale part pedunculate petals petioles pink pinna pinnae plant plants pollens prickly pudica purple red seen slender sparsely stalked stamens stem summer their trailing upper young