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Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
The dogwood bunchberry's flower opens its petals and fires pollen in less than 0.5 milliseconds. The record is currently held by the white mulberry tree, with flower movement taking 25 microseconds, as pollen is catapulted from the stamens at velocities in excess of half the speed of sound—near the theoretical physical limits for movements in ...
Trillium grandiflorum in the foreground and the smaller Thalictrum thalictroides in the background are both spring ephemerals of North American deciduous forests. An ephemeral plant is a plant with a very short life cycle or very short period of active growth, often one that grows only during brief periods when conditions are favorable.
Close-up of bamboo flowers Phyllostachys glauca 'Yunzhu' flowers. Many bamboo species flower at extremely long intervals such as 65 or even 120 years. These taxa exhibit mass flowering (or gregarious flowering), with all plants in a particular cohort flowering over a several-year period. Any plant derived through clonal propagation from this ...
They naturalise relatively easily forming large drifts. These are often sterile, [60] found near human habitation, and also former monastic sites. [59] The leaves die back a few weeks after the flowers have faded. Galanthus plants are relatively vigorous and may spread rapidly by forming bulb offsets. They also spread by dispersal of seed ...
Plants that flower and fruit only once and then die are termed monocarpic or semelparous; these species may live for many years before they flower. [7] For example, a century plant can live for 80 years and grow 30 meters tall before flowering and dying. [ 8 ]
Pittosporum eugenioides starts out as a small compact tree; as it matures it becomes a tall branched tree. The lemonwood flowers between October and December. The following year, after flowering, the capsules will open. The capsules open the next year because the fruit of the lemonwood takes between 12 and 14 months to ripen.
Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, and the male flowers open a day or two later. That usually prevents the flower from self-pollinating. After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which resembles a small tree and reaches a similar size, grows from the underground tuber. The leaf grows on ...