Mimosa pigra L.
Giant Sensitive Plant / Sopan malu (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
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Precaution
Perennial large prickly shrub of up to 2 m tall. Leaves are pinnately compound, alternately placed, with many branchlets. Leaflets are sensitive, tiny and subsessile. Leaf blade is linear-lanceolate, apex is acute, base is rounded with entire or toothed margin. Stems are branching, cylindrical, erect and becoming woody and dark red when mature. Inflorescence a head arising at leaf axils that form globular clusters. Flowers are fluffy pale pink or cream. Fruit a large, brown, bristly pod that contains many seeds in one segment.
Locally, the fresh leaves are soaked into warm water as herbal bath to treat gastric and cold. The plant exhibits antibacterial and
It thrives in disturbed areas, along roadsides, moist waste grounds and in open plantations. It prefers moist but well- drained soil under sunny position.
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Native to tropical America.Giant sensitive Plant
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