Before moving to Hawai'i, my only experience with sensitive plant (mimosa pudica) was at a display at the Chicago botanical gardens where you could touch it. As you can imagine, it made a big impression on me as a kid

Here in the tropical wet climate of East Hawai'i Island, it grows in many disturbed areas, like my driveway! It's fun until you experience the sharp thorniness

But here's a pro-tip: goats love it!

Here's a video I took of mimosa pudica in action: https://youtube.com/shorts/kmch3KVc-v8?si=01D8me1t7_Q8mEWs

The little pink puffballs are its flowers. If you notice a similarity to other fabaceae, that's because it too is in fabaceae. I'd love it, if only it wasn't so sharp!

#Andrena lathyri, die Zaunwicken-#Sandbiene ist in Deutschland vor allem in den südlichen Bundesländern nicht selten. Sie ist auf Pollen von Schmetterlingsblütlern (#Fabaceae) spezialisierte Art (= oligolektisch) und bevorzugt dabei Zaunwicken. Um an den Nektar zu kommen, beißen sie meist den Blütenkelch an (#Nektarraub). Ihre Zunge ist nicht lang genug.
#Wildbiene #BeesUp

@trregeagle There are so many cool aspects about #peanuts. Peanuts belong to the #legume family (#Fabaceae) like peas, beans, chickpeas, or lupins fava beans.
As it is typical for legumes, the plants develop a close relationship with certain soil bacteria, which grow into the legume root and produce #RootNodules. Only in these nodules, these #bacteria start to fix nitrogen, which is then stred as #protein in the seeds of the #plant. That's why legumes are so valuable as #food.

Today's cross section is a stem of pea (Pisum sativum, #Fabaceae).
A square and hollow stem with a dozen of vascular bundles :
- Inner dark region with white circles = xylem with its vessel elements ;
- Outer light region = phloem.
Outside phloem : fibers, especially in the corners.
#PlantAnatomy

RT @tueboga@twitter.com

#Highlight im #BotanischerGarten im April mit sehr spezieller Blütenfarbe: der Jadewein (Strongylodon macrobotrys) blüht im #Tropicarium #Fabaceae
#Tübingen #Tuebingen

: https://twitter.com/tueboga/status/1512411942933213185

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Highlight im März ist eine kletternde #Fabaceae aus dem Biodiversitätshotspot im Südwesten Australiens: Hardenbergia comptoniana (Falscher Blauregen)
Die einzelnen Schmetterlingsblüten mit den Augenflecken erinnern an kleine, blaue Disney-Enten...
#BotanischerGarten

: https://twitter.com/tueboga/status/1501888778851524609