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A number of sensitive plant species have their habitat protected in the park.

There were also facilities for the storage of sensitive plants during winter.

Michael's words "The Press is a sensitive plant" came into his mind.

Most private eyes are depicted as sensitive plants, with emotional problems just like ours.

There were sensitive plants, though I had never seen one so much so as this.

Protect all temperature sensitive plants and remember to shelter your pets.

In Australia, the common name is mimosa or giant sensitive plant.

Quite a sensitive plant to grow in the aquarium.

Fifty other species of rare/sensitive plants and animals also occur in the forest.

At last, it was used as a provisional greenhouse for less sensitive plants by the city garden centre.

Other sensitive plants include fruit trees and many conifers including pines.

These areas provide critical habitat for more than 1,600 threatened, endangered, or sensitive plant and animal species.

Dear, sensitive plant, swept away by this storm, will you be able to survive in another soil than your native land?

Particularly sensitive plants to lower temperatures are gesneriads, better known as the African violet and its cousins.

We climbed across the dunes, trying not to step on sensitive plants, to reach the hill and pick up handfuls of sand.

This gives you two ways to cope: keep sensitive plants outside the death zone, and choose juglone-tolerant ones for the area within it.

Some soaps or oil-based sprays will burn the leaves of sensitive plants.

To remedy the situation called for measures so drastic that his mind jerked quickly back, like the fronds of a sensitive plant.

For example, the mimosa, or sensitive plant, represents chastity.

It had fared with my mind as with the garden in the Sensitive Plant, when the lady was dead.

But if my hand approached these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony took alarm.

Introduced species of plant such as the giant sensitive plant and Mission grass are threatening habitats.

Mimosa diplotricha, also known as the giant sensitive plant, is a species in the Fabaceae family.

'Pray, don't talk to me of eating,' said Emmeline, drooping like a sensitive plant.

Studies on plant movement have centred around plants such as Mimosa pudica (the sensitive plant).

Along with willow and birch and brier, the clematis, that shyest plant of water borders, slips down season by season to within a hundred yards of the village street.

A comparatively slow-moving plant is Mimosa pudica, which closes its leaflets in a graceful sequence.

Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica)

Common examples for pulvinar movements include the night closure movement of legume leaves and the touch response of the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica).

In 1729, de Mairan performed an experiment that demonstrated the existence of circadian rhythms in plants, specifically the Mimosa pudica.

It is not known exactly why Mimosa pudica evolved this trait, but many scientists think that the plant uses its ability to shrink as a defense from predators.

I can't leave a houseplant alone that long, but the burro's tail is doing O.K. Not so the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica).

Some plants are capable of rapid movement: the mimosa plant (Mimosa pudica) makes its thin leaves point down at the slightest touch and carnivorous plants such as the Venus flytrap snap shut by the touch of insects.