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Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" 2
#28631669 - 01/23/24 03:09 AM (5 months, 1 day ago) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica
I finally looked up this unique plant. Apparently, the common name is "Sleeping Grass" or "Sleepy Grass". These plants grew all over Hawaii, where I grew up and their touch-reactive leaves always blew my mind.
I just read the Wiki article above about the species and the experiments that were done with this species are truly fascinating.
I hope you enjoy the read as much as I did! 
Great Botany Info: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.34202
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Re: Mimosa pedica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#28631690 - 01/23/24 04:11 AM (5 months, 1 day ago) |
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Cool huh. For some reason, we still don't have one as a houseplant. Which is a shame. Thanks for reminding me; we should get one.
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Re: Mimosa pedica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: koraks] 2
#28632206 - 01/23/24 03:02 PM (5 months, 16 hours ago) |
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It's a super interesting plant. It grows as a weed here so I'm no stranger to pulling it out. It has fine hard thorns though so you need leather gloves when removing it. Some years back I did an extraction on it. A sample was GCMS tested and a whole range of alkaloids were detected including 5meo-DMT and NN-DMT.
Seems to favour spots where it can crush out competition against other things. Rather than growing out in the open alone it will grow in places like on the edges of other vegetation, around cactus and at the base of trees. Interesting tactic.
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Re: Mimosa pedica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: koraks]
#28632744 - 01/24/24 12:52 AM (5 months, 6 hours ago) |
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If you grow one, you could perform interesting science experiments 
Apparently these plants can learn from stimuli. Simply incredible.
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Re: Mimosa pedica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#28633103 - 01/24/24 09:46 AM (4 months, 30 days ago) |
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Intriguing lifeform, in many ways. One I don't think I've seen IRL. Its phytoremediation potential and (tryptamine) alkaloid contents are obviously legit - the idea that it contains antivenom for one of the snakes it shares a habitat with (South East Asia, Monocled Cobra) is the sort of thing that really gets my brain going, though. The part on wiki about the drop experiment was really cool too.
^Made me think of that classic vid (I see it's mentioned on wiki). Man, the potential for relationships & communication between different plants, fungi & animals is incredible. Not to derail the thread, it's still related to the idea of interspecies interaction, I recently read in 'Entangled Life':
[a study by Toby Kiers]"Looking for 'trading decisions.' Where phosphorus was scarce, she discovered that the plant paid a higher “price” in the form of more carbon for every unit of phosphorus it received from the fungus. Where phosphorus was more abundant, the fungus received a less favorable “exchange rate.” Moreover, Keirs identified a strategy of “buy low, sell high,” replicating our familiar logic of supply and demand. She showed that the fungus actively moved phosphorus from areas where it was plentiful (where it brought a low price when exchanged with the plant root) to areas where it was scarce and therefore in higher demand, using its “microtubule motors.” By doing so it was able to manipulate the plant to supply higher quantities of carbon in return for the phosphorus."
 Like lugging your inventory to different traders just for a few extra gold on certain objects.
 I wonder; by what means these decisions are made- the Mimosa developing the antivenom in its roots for example- is it an inevitble evolutionary byproduct of some factor in their shared environment? Do they have methods of communicating their traits more specifically, perhaps in way of electrical impulses: duration, frequency, intensity? By opening and closing ion channels in order to turn genes on and off, as the speculation for the mentioned drop experiment considers? Something so far left field that we haven't even hypothesised it yet?
 Fuckin dank stuff.
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: Lithop] 1
#28633367 - 01/24/24 01:53 PM (4 months, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, its wild man! What if the Mimosa's are communicating to each other via their seismonastic movements!
I also realized i misspelled "pudica" as "pedica". Whoops! I fixed that.
Cool video, thanks for linking that. 
Its interesting that Dionaea muscipula aka The Venus Fly Trap has the same seismonastic movement, one of the few plants in the world that has this unique trait.
Even more mind-blowing that the Venus Fly Trap can actually count and does it specifically for survival. And that interspecies demonstration was really amazing. So fascinating!
It would be really interesting to do some genetic experiments such as the drop experiment to see if the plant would pass on its "memories" to the next generation. And how does it remember these specific stimuli without a brain? Where is this info even stored? Its mind-boggling to think about.
Found this cool video where a scientist injected florescent dye into a Mimosa pudica plant and to track the movement and action of calcium ion in the plant. Really cool little experiment.
I didn't know about the antivenom trait. Very interesting! Its interesting that unique plants like Mimosa pudica have these hidden medicines within them. Like was this plant being eaten by those venomous snakes? Why would it develop an antivenom? Perhaps ancient artificial selection by native people in the area using the plant for antivenom medicine? Great stuff
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#28635258 - 01/26/24 05:49 AM (4 months, 29 days ago) |
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^Very cool, and yeah- definitely mind boggling/expanding. The question of if and how plants store memory from stimuli is totally wild, but then again so is the idea of a seed/spore/egg IMO! I think, part of the trouble in truly relating to (and to some extents truly understanding) plants, fungi & animals comes from our default to anthropomorphising everything. Personally, I find it useful/acceptable in the sense that it allows me to feel connection to the 'other' in an instant way but in the grand scheme of things it perhaps does more harm than good. Because it sort of depends on my selfishness to assume everything is more similar to me in function than dissimilar... More value, perhaps, in adapting our ideas to their systems, rather than the other way around- if you can dig it. To develop empathy leading to harmony for something so other without having to squeeze it into a 1:1 with our own functions or mechanisms could be a sort of intellectual 'hard step'. What do you think about that, LogicaL? ('that' being the idea of evolving into some sort of union with the non human by a reevluating of our standards of comparison/study)
 :edit: spellings
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
#28673733 - 02/24/24 07:04 AM (4 months, 5 minutes ago) |
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Mimosa pudica (often called "The Sensitive Plant") was the first species of plant I grew as a teenager. I purchased a seed packet at a local garden store. I've grown them from time to time as an adult - usually to show them to children, who love to watch the fronds fold up. Older plants can get woody - with strong root systems, and sharp thorns. The flowers are quite interesting.
Mimosa pudica is a member of he pea/legume family Fabaceae - native to Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Peru, Costa Rica, U.S. Virgin Islands, Belize, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. This species is considered an invasive species in Tanzania, Southeast Asia, and many Pacific islands.
I recall traveling in Guatemala 30+ years ago, visiting Mayan ruins, and walking thru huge patches - as was a lot of fun watching all the plants fold up as I strolled along!
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#28674485 - 02/24/24 05:27 PM (3 months, 30 days ago) |
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I think Stipa robusta is sleepy grass, and M pudica is sensitive plant. Stipa robusta contains lysergic acid amide, and Shit I can't remember else what I was gonna say , but look into Stipa robusta. Here's a link:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1344912/
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
#28781812 - 05/20/24 09:30 PM (1 month, 6 days ago) |
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Great book that talks about plant memory.
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
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Re: Mimosa pudica aka "Sleeping Grass" [Re: myceliups] 1
#28782400 - 05/21/24 11:33 AM (1 month, 5 days ago) |
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So has any freebased one yet lol
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