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This plant deserves it’s own post.
The plant moves really fast. You touch it, or shake it, and it closes up, almost instantly.
Plants are amazing and we don’t deserve them !

Mimosa pudica 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 fold inward and droop when touched or shaken and re-open a few minutes later. It is well known for its rapid plant movement.

Wikipedia, probably

Here’s me touching it.

No plants were harmed in the making of this film*