Sensitive Plant

The sensitive plant is just what the name suggests... It's sensitive!  Once grown, a sensitive plant's leaves will curl up when you touch them, just like you would expect a plant with that name to do!

The sensitive plant (scientific name Mimosa pudica) has a few strange traits, including folding up it's leaves when it goes to sleep at night and unfolding them in the morning.

The sensitive plant, also known as touch me not plant, tickle me plant, shy plant, shame plant and a whole host of other fitting names, is originally native from Tropical America, but it can be easily grown anywhere in the world.

The plant achieves this through the use of both special temperature sensors and touch sensitive areas, which it uses to protect itself in the wild.

The sensitive plant makes the ideal unusual gift and is the perfect fun to grow plant for the kids as it can be grown indoors as a houseplant, is easy to grow and will provide countless hours of fun, whilst being educational and showing kids how to care for a plant.

How to grow your own sensitive plant