Mimosa Pudica - The Sensitive Plant
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Demonstration of the touch sensitive plants reactions to being touched, bumped, hit, and heated with fire as well as some fantastic time lapse videography of the plant standing back up.
Music by Kevin MacLeod (Comfortable Mystery and Cartoon Pizzicato
I grew this for my children when they were young. It was in the middle of our dining table and we had it for 2 years.We named it MARTHA! Not only would it move if it was gently blowed on, it actually would close up in the evening at about 7 pm every night and open again by the morning.When talking with my kids about fire safety, my children said they would only take the living pets outside, namely our 2 dogs, and my 4 year old yelled, "well, I'd take Martha, because she is alive and one of our family." I'd forgotton about that little story until I saw your post. Thankyou!!!
That's just adorable.
Oh how sweet
That is a very sweet story. Thanks for sharing, made my day!
Yes...I love these TickleMe Plants too...I found them online
TheDuches
After this video the plant got a restraining order and is no longer harassed.
Good to know it's in Good Hands™
Just watched a guy slap a plant for 4 minutes.
Chris Hamby with intense sound effects lmao
And I'm kinda pissed at myself lol
Epico
😅
😂😂😂🖕🏾
I'd like to play cards with this plant, but I'm afraid it would just fold.
wowwww
wwwooowww
Corny.
These TickleMe Plants are the coolest thing ever. Found kits to grow them with my students and family on line....awesome vide
Just like your video uploads
I wish these plants made piano noises as well.
Cute idea 😃 but turns creepy while your sleeping, when your woken up by the piano sounds😳.
Plot twist, they do
A few days ago, I began a UA-cam search to identify this plant. I got my answer on another YT page but I thought I'd share my story here too ...
The first and only time I encountered Mimosa Pudica was in a VERY extraordinary way. It was 1967. I was in the 25th Infantry Division in VietNam. My artillery battery was establishing a FSB (Fire Support Base) near the Cambodian border. I had stepped onto a large wide open, sun drenched field which was CARPETED with dense, dark green foilage. This "carpet" of plants was quite homogeneous in color, density, and height (all only several inches). So this field (about 150' wide bordered by dense, tall jungle) looked as much like some exotic lawn as it did "just" very low scrub weed ground cover.
As I went but several steps into this field, there was a burst of automatic weapons fire and bullets whizzed right over my head. I hit the ground hard and fast. Having flatten myself, I found myself amazed to be nose to nose with plants that quivered and shriveled at my touch! Even though I had not identified the source of the gunfire (Friendly fire? VC?!!) I was captivated by my discovery - meeting and interacting with a life form that "should not" have been so "sentient" … or something.
At first, I poked here and there gingerly. Each leaf retreated. Then, still not absolutely sure "the coast was clear", I fully extended my arms and fingers. Lying there prone, I made "flapping" motions gently skimming these plants - like making face-down snow angels. And just as my arms would have made white "wings" in snow - they created green, kinetic wings as I laid in that field.
I'll never forget that moment … nor the incredible irony of it all. My thanks to those postings at YT that FINALLY helped me put a name to those charming little plants that I "met" 50 years ago on the other side of the planet.
That was lovely.
So cute! :3
Wonderful story
BIG Salute to you. THANKS for your service.
BIG Salute to you. THANKS for your service.
If i accidentally pulled out a leaf, i would feel horrible for weeks wow.
same
I guess that's why we never have..
I told a lady that it is a breath analyzing plant. She blew on it, it fell, she looked at me and told me she only had one drink. I told her that you can;t fool Mother Nature!
Lol! Great joke!
Yes because she is fool
The music every time he hits the plant makes me mad
yesssss. tun tun tun tun
same here
It made me laugh for some reason
the one touching the plant in this video must be having the time of their life
maria grader XD
Imagine being near this plant, thinking it was just an ordinary plant.
That would scare the shit out of me.
I’d scream lol
Lol! 😂😂😂
Then it closed
Me: :O
Maybe it's meant to be this way to scare animals away.
Is it weird that I get upset when they smack it? XD Like, dude, be gentle.
Karichi Du Soleil I thought the same thing, why wack it?
Hopefully not.
I have never felt bad for a plant before, but now I have. Not that I don't love plants and flowers. Yes I am a male, heterosexual "alpha" looking to boot, and women always find themselves surprised as I am a walking contradiction to established stereotypes. I like small, "yippy" type old-lady dogs, love my flower garden, love shopping and picking out outfits for clothes for my girlfriend and have been told I have an excellent eye for womens clothes, I clean the house and I am the cook of the house. It all comes from not giving a shit what anybody thinks and just being myself. Long winded I guess, but what I am saying is no, nothing wrong at all with feeling for a plant. And nothing wrong with being the odd-one-out when being such means being someone with compassion and empathy for other living things. It is the trait I am most grateful for having in this cynical, mean spirited, impersonal 10k mile a minute digital world we live in now.
Karichi Du Soleil I felt bad when he put the flame near it... lol.
Karichi Du Soleil So rude
These grow wild in my backyard. I used to love playing with them and showing them to my friends. I always thought they were so cute and used to tell the plants "Don't be scared, I won't hurt you" xD
...thorns on them will mess you up ... part of the plant's defense from being eaten ...
OK, WE GET IT!
Leave the poor plant alone.You're over there beating it to death.
you gave me the best chuckle I've had today
Sally Ballz Nah I'll kick this plant's ass
Thank you Sally!!
For real! And what's with the whole heating it with fire thing??? I can't watch!
Plants are do not have a central nervous system, nor a brain. therefore, they cannot feel pain and they are not sentient. The animals you eat on a daily basis, on the other hand (you fucking hypocrite btw) are sentient. And they can have subjective experiences, and they can suffer.
I can definitely see people spending hours just touching this plant. XD
" woah...... did that plant just move?!" *30min later* " right... uh... what was i doing again?"
When I was a kid, my life was touching those plants
the people in the comments are more Sensitive than the plant.
LOL TRUE
American Patriot 😂😂😂
Hahaha
American Patriot Yeah
Lol
This was the first UA-cam video I ever watched.
OmG! This video is from 2008! :O
Nice
The plants really make that sound when you touch them too.
There was so many of these in the neighborhood I grew up in. Every morning when I walked to school I would play with these plants. Thanks for the video!
Such movements usually happen because of changing water balance in the cells. When leaves of mimosa are touched, the cells in the leaves lose water and become flaccid; resulting in drooping of leaves
@@kookiecam4735 hey bro, this comment is 4 years old ...lol
@@Johny-jo2tk wwoow
Now it’s 6 years old
And now its 7 years old
I'm like "Jesus Christ stop beating it like this! It's sufficient just to caress it gently, you don't need to smack the shit out of it..."
I bought a mimosa pudica today. I'm so excited to see it wake up every morning!
I remember living in Puerto Rico as a kid. This was one of the reasons why I enjoyed playing in the jungle behind my grandparents' backyard.
I don't usually bother commenting about things like this, but I feel the complaints about that noise are valid. It is really abrasive especially with headphones. The effect is compounded by the hypnotic music contrasting it.
That was back in 2008, when those were actually entertaining.
In Turkish this plant called "I'm upset". It's funny but accurate name.
In Malaysia we called it the shy plant..
Random Viewers same in Bengali...
Üzgünüm çiçeği? Küstüm dediklerini biliyorum ama üzgünüm hiç duymadım
Isn't that more like "I am offended'
In Spanish we can call it "don'ttouchme"
I want this plant as a houseplant! looks fun to play with.
... makes a great house plant here in Zone 6 ... inside for the cold tho during winter ... may go dormant here ...
I grew up in my grandma’s garden and this was a childhood wonder for me... I just relived my childhood for a few minutes
Love these TickleMe Plants...Just bought a classroom kit online for my students and one for my niece and nephew!
Ah! Human, please don't touch me... am ticklish... -closes up-
coochie *FUCKING* coo
this is the music they play when it's being decided which of the 9 circles of hell you'll be going to.
I like your way of thinking. Do you write ?
Mick Allen I feel like I can write a whole book in my head but can't seem to put it to paper. I need more motivation.
Mick Allen How do you know from one sentence that I would be good at it though?
Nawty Alice Because I'm a bit clever :p
Wow I think hell has expanded as I landed briefly between the 665th and 666th circle shortly after exposure to this video's musaac.
This is the best sensitive plant video online though violent enough quantity enough thank you
plant was like "hey man, dont touch my willy" "help, help! stranger danger ! stranger danger !"
Oh no, what are the vegans going to eat now?
You humans
LOL!!!!
They will turn into cannibals....
@tweakypoppy One of the main points of a vegan diet is to eat something that is alive vibrant rather than dead and rotting. It's about nutrient variety which you don't really get from a lifeless, expiring carcass compared to the living plant.
Komadin What a shame vitamin B12 comes from lifeless carcasses. As we are omnivorous we do not actually gain more nutrients by avoiding food groups.
Got upset watching the abuse. Did they consider loving the plant?!
+Launie Sorem You have to consider how green the plant looks. They're giving it lots of love right there.
'Abuse'? There was no abuse going on. What are you talking about?
It's a response the plant acts out to respond to changes in pressure. Plants can't feel pain, and don't even have a consciousness in the first place.
Both of you it’s a joke
Huh?
@@LavaAnime Sarcasm
In my old country (before I moved) little patches of these were all over the parks. I was always mesmerized by how they close from a single blow or touch.
While on 'tour' in Vietnam, we encountered these plants daily. 45 years later, I remembered it today while watching a nature program on PBS.
2 M views from touching plants... I NEED MIMOSA PUDICAS!!!
In Indonesia it is called "putri malu" (shy girl) (``,).
Cute!
Putri is girl ?
Here in Brazil it's called "sleepy plant"
In india it's called shy plant
In Vietnam , it's also called "shy girl" too ( Trinh Nữ )
Best lesson ever! Thanks Mr. Carson!
Naalala ko yang damo na yan pinaglalaruan namin nung araw sng tawag sa amin turo tutog. Hahaha friends here supporting.
What is wrong with you? Why are you hitting the plant? reported for plant abuse...
:)
Welp, my eyebrow just hit the ceiling.
I don't know why but this was very satisfying to watch
i love to play with mimosa pudica so much before they throw it and you let me remind of it thank you so much
Bonjour
J'ai offert une de ces plantes à ma filles et chez elle tout le monde était surpris des réactions lorqu'on la touche. Le problème d'après un agent en herboriculture c'est que ce sont des plantes qui se stressent si on les taquine un peu trop souvent et meurent au lieu de se développer... C'est une très belle plante...
tru bro
Ah oui ?
It's a plant. No. It doesn't have feelings. It doesn't care that it's owner is slapping it. I'm sure the owner doesn't care that the owner is slapping it. If it's harmful I'm sure he'll just get a new one. Relax.
Yeah, well. You don't know whether it has feelings or not. Sure, it's "just a plant", but that plant responds to the touching by literally pretending to be dead in hopes that the predator will fuck off. And sure, he can just get a new one. But do you really need to batter/burn something for fun just to feel happy? If you do, that's the problem. *He didn't have to burn it to prove his point.*
He was showing that the reflex occurs in response to heat as well.
Also, plants don't have feelings, and don't have a nervous system, so they don't feel pain. Heck, they don't feel anything at all. They don't even have a consciousness to know that they don't feel anything.
I remember seeing the plant in El Salvador as a young kid and a I loved walking around the backyard where so many of thes plants grew. I haven't been there in years and everyday I think of the plant when I go outside because there's always a few plants that look so similar it reminds me of it! I might buy one as a matter of fact
2:45 is really cute thank you
is this smokeable
anything is smokable if you're brave enough
Mimosa Hostillis with extra steps is😉
Plants have feelings.. they feel pain, they can read minds and produce their own music, they communicate with other plants using their own generated sounds.. don't be too cruel to them, in fact there's a device which you can hear them sing.. they produce a good songs, very relaxing
Plants do not have a brain which means they don't have a nervous system which means they can't feel pain. They don't think - they don't have feelings - they are living organisms that react to their environment through a series of chemical reactions and chemical reactions _alone_. They are not sentinel beings and I have no idea where you're getting this information - but it's wrong.
Sadistic Siren That is study on what scientist knew about plants but there are still things that humans don't know about life. In harsh environment, there are still species tht able to live, but people thought they are dead, but no they're alive. These plants may either adapts or develop in a way that for humans seems impossible but for nature it's possible. Science has still a long way to go to catch up to the impossible.
Dnt call someone wrong, just because u read something more thn people do. if u know the right thing, u accept other's comments and instead calling them wrong, u reply them with an easy manner. :/
Aizel Suyo
The last part of your comment was pretty much psychobabble and I have no clue what it is trying to say. Basic grammar will take you a long way.
If you want to prove me wrong so badly, show me a source that says that plants have emotions instead of "science can be wrong about things that have been studied by hundreds of people in an unbiased manner, because why not".
There is no proof of anything. Science doesn't prove, it only disproves. (If it can't be disproved then it's more likely to be true.) There is lots of evidence that plants do communicate with one-another, though I do not believe we have evidence of anything sound based. (Though I could be wrong.) What I do know we have is vast evidence of a molecular based communication. That is, a plant will release molecules into the air and they will land on other plants which will then react to them. For example, if a plant is being attacked by an insect, it may release a chemical and that may land on another plant and trigger it to produce insecticide. This is all a matter of chemical reactions, however, and thus requires no thought. It is not very likely that plants would have any way to feel pain. As someone pointed out, they do not have a nervous system. (That being said, an organism can have a nervous system and no brain and still feel pain. For example, a jellyfish.) It is highly unlikely that plants are able to think. The touch stimulus causes a chain of reactions that in turn cause the plant to move like so. This gives it an advantage that would be selected for by nature. Still, it requires energy to move, and so causing the plant to do so by touching it IS expending probably quite a bit of energy for the plant, and as a result, the plant probably will be slightly worse off as it has to reharvest that energy. So, doing it often really would not be advisable as far as I can tell. (However in a situation where the alternative is losing lots of plant matter by being eaten, it is worth it for the plant.)
HAHA, you actually believe that those "ping" sounds were made by the plant XD? whooooohohohoho, i just ignored everything after i read that last part XD
I like the relaxing music. I know it's not some marvelous composition but it works so well.
I love these TickleMe Plants...got the TickleMe Plant greenhouse on line two weeks ago and my kids and students can't wait to greet their plants in the morning. Anyone can grow this plant!
That sound effect is the moste anoying thing in existance
doop doop doop doop... badoddooddpdoodoodoop.
Same m8
I grew up with this plant in South Africa. Childhood memories 💕
I just notified PETP! Be awaiting them at your doorstep!!
We are limited to only see between infrared and ultraviolet lights, only hear a very small frequency range of sound. Are we the only ones that can see, hear and feel things? Or is there other lights, vibrations and frequencies that is different from our way of interpreting the world? Science mostly takes a look on the material world. I believe that what we CAN see or touch is not the interesting part, the interesting part is what is there but cannot be seen by our senses normally. Our brain sees the material world as our senses describe it mostly, the brain affects the senses and the senses affect the brain which means that we all see it a little different from one another.. but if we see it through our senses. Then there surely must be other sensory descriptions of this world that is less known to us from beings that we thought of as being autonomous or not being conscious or even beings that we cannot see hear or touch at all. Earth is alive and conscious and from it we all came.
Well of course it's going to close if you're smacking the shit out of it like that
amazing, saw it in my childhood. hope i see it again.
This plant brings so many of my childhood memories back in Guatemala. When my dad first showed this plant to us he said, "wanna see a magic trick?" and he proceded to touch it while saying "muévete, muévete" -which translates to "move, move" in english-. My brother and I were mesmerized by the power my dad had over plants hahah (he´s an agricultural engineer, which just made so much sense haha). Even now when I see this plant, I´ve to say "muévete, muévete" to feel like I have permission to touch it.
called sensitive plant.. goes ahead to smack it about and using lighter
me gusta
: D
I like the added sound track by the way. Its relaxing.
Gran video, muy ilustrativo. Enhorabuena. Viva Brazil
The plant is like: Ahhh! Don't touch me!
I love this plant, came across it when I was a kid here in South Africa.....
Thanks for your reply, which proved the environment in which you live
I remember watching this video so many years go!
I can't believe this was our 6th grade learning video about sensitive plants.
A gardener called Kevin Heinz showed me this plant when I was 9 years old. He wanted to plant a seed he told our class. 4 decades later and I plant hundreds of trees/ shrubs etc and work on my own massive garden everyday :)
When I was little, I used to play this plant in our backyard.
I just planted some of these seeds in a indoor pot.
I cant wait to see how it grows.
Thanks for this Video.
H-H-How cute! ! ! Ahh, I can't get over it! Such a QT plant!
had to watch this for bio class.... the sound effects made it better
Im just glad to see im not the only one who watched a guy touching a plant for 4 mins.
what a funny plant that emits pizzicato sound when you touch it !
Amazing plant. I want one.
I remember these plants growing up. Haha they were so fun.
As a brazilian i don't see one of this plant for years, i had forgot about this, it's part of my childhood, very nice video.
I see this a lot in El Salvador
This has got to be my new favourite plant
First time I'm thinking of a plant as cute. :D
this is the reason why I, when watering my plants, talk to them, breath on them, pet them and every ones in a while give them a tiny 'kiss' on a leaf, they need that comfort if I need to cut off a leaf.. it seems to work, so yes, call me crazy, but I'm going to stick with this :) they're living creations, too, like you and I..
crazy.
These grow everywhere outside in my motherland of El Salvador. I used to play with them in the open fields when I was a little kid because they were all over the playing ground next to this big cement slide where I used to slide down at with my buddies.
Finally i got to see that plant they talked about for years in school
I read about this plant in my book then I see this video for my clarity
Thanks for the vid. When I first saw the seeds for a "sensitive plant," I thought it was some kind of emo plant.
So coolDidn't know that plants can evan do that
Merci prof de sciences de nous avoir autorisé
This plant has memory. If you keep playing with this, it'll realize that you are playing with it and will stop closing until it dies
My biology teacher showed us this and my entire class was screaming *PLANT ABUSE.*
Perfect video and way😁👍👍👍
0:51 That is a beautiful closing 😸😁
We have this plant back home. Had some experiences with it when i was younger.
When I was young I used to play with these in the woods they're great
that poor plant. one of the only species that shows its feelings and this guy just smacks it around all day
mis juguetes de la infancia !!!! me encantaba jugar con esas plantas !!!
Griwing up in ghana, west Africa we called this plant some naughty names.. Brings back good memories
I was just wondering about that myself. They seem familiar to me too growing up in Nigeria. What did you can them in Ghana?
They have them in the fields of my school. When I used to be in elementary, I always played with these... ;) They took a while to go back to normal, and when they did, I would just touch them again lmao. I admit I still do this in High School.
super bien fait la vidéo Bravo
This plant is so touchy...