Have you ever seen an ipil-ipil tree?

looks like 'puteri malu' in indonesia it has tigmonasti...yes if you touch the leaves then then leaves quickly fold up... nasti comes from greek languange..."thigma" so called "touch"

There is a mimosa that sometimes is grown as a potted plant, but also grew on the roadsides near my grandparent's homes. It is known as the Sensitive Plant, as well. It has the pink puffballs flowers and the leaves that will fold up. Prayer plant will also do this, every evening, but it is not a mimosa, and does not resemble the mimosa. We had a plant like yours with the yellow flowers with red tongues when I was growing up. Mom called it a Bird of Paradise, although we also later grew the more common bird of paradise. I have seen one Paulownia tree in my life time, and they are lovely, remind me in many ways of Catalpa trees. I also like chestnut trees.

Its amazing how the world of greens unfold! Thanks for sharing this interesting thing with us. I think we too have a bush similar to the one you have shared and guess what the cows get sick on eating it. So the farmers removed them from fields. So, this could be true with all mammals as well. We used to have mimosa in our garden. As a child I used to love the leaves closing down to. We call it 'lajjabati' (someone who is shy) here.

I am from the Philippines, I saw Ipil-Ipil every time I'll visit the province. It's a durable tree... Goats in our provinces loves to eat the leaves of Ipil-Ipil. The seeds of the said tree can be use as 'purga', it means to kill the worms inside the intestines. Children love to eat them. But I do not know yet if it would exterminate kogon. Ipil-Ipil can a verygood firewood. Many of my folks in the province would cut them into firewoods. Its trunk and branches to could be made as charcoal for commercial purposes. It is also used as round timber for building houses in the country side. Kogon is very useful too. Most of the houses specially in the farm area used kogon as their roof material... I love Pitcher plant... it grows here in the Philippines too specially in the cooler areas... it's a carnivorous plant... As we know that plant is capable of its food making through the help of carbon dioxide and sunlight (Photosynthesis)... but pitcher plant would trap insects for their foods and survival... :-)

This is one of my most favorite plants ever, drannhh. When I was young, in the school garden and mostly everywhere around me in neighboring areas, I would see this sensitive plant and all of us would love to touch it, just because of the fact the petals would slowly close. It's funny, and these sensitive plants are really sensitive to touch. And it takes some time to open back, I think.. because we closed everything on purpose by touching them and waiting for it to open up takes some time, LOL... So, besides in Philippines, there are also sensitive plants in Singapore too. But lately, I've not seen much of these plants, don't know why.

Yes one in your picture is not the same and different from the ipil-ipil tree we have here in the Philippines. Maybe the fact that they have pods make them quite alike but the pods of common ipil ipil here are not that wide and long. But I also could see that same mismosa variety here and I think it is growing into big tress. Am I right? Well anyway, I know one extra-ordinary plant here in our country which we call "makahiya" plant. It is also sensitive and would fold up all its leaves when touched. It lavender flowers and thorny stem and grows even in stony place. They are actually considered wild plants and not being cultivated in the garden.

I hsvr hesrd of sensitive plant which we used to call as"touch-me-not".As soon as we touched it would close its leaves .THen there is the famous Aloe vera ,the gel of which is now made into cream .My vegetable vendor , an illiterate rural woman told me elaborately about its medicinal properties and that the gel when consumed also acted as an antidote against some internal fungal infections.THis is the one growing in arid land.She brought a few thick stems for me .

No, I've never seen an ipil-ipil tree. They sound very interesting and beautiful, though. I bet they smell good, too, especially if they're used as a moisturizer and skin softener. I think mimosas are beautiful, anyway, but of course the only mimosas I'm familiar with have the pink blossoms. I never have given it any thought much but I guess my favorite plant is the aloe vera plant because of it's medicinal effects. I also like honeysuckle bushes and hyacinths because they both smell so good. Come to think of it, it won't be much longer before the honeysuckles will be blooming again. I can't wait! Kathy.

I haven't heard about the name of the plant which you mentioned but yes one thing is very fascinating about the name and its pronunciation as well IPIL-IPIL. I am sure and very positive about the it is that that the exact may not be available over our south-eastern region but the family of its different kind must be there only its a matter of research is needed. On the other hand the sensitive plant was once used to be and even at this moment also arouse my curiosity,I was too fond of it; now days its rarely been talked about and neither easily been spotted as it used to be some 10 years ago,todays children doesn't know about it. In my tough if I translate it into a raw English it simply means SHYNESS i.e. to say logaa-bohty. Neem tree is one such tree which have numerous medicinal value and it grows in abundance without any effort,throughout our country and throughout the ages our country people have been using it naturally,with its soft sub-sub branch the people brush their teeth in the morning,during the spring time the new leaves are sprouted which are used along with bringle simply by frying we consume it,which test very bitter but we are used to it and hence addicted to it on every seasons,and now it is the last stage of the seasons neem consumption.