# Cool plant *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Feb 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### akt *04 Feb 2001, 10:16* > I don't really participate enough to merit a name, > though I suppose if I were to pick one - does anyone > know the name of the little fern-like looking plant > that grows on the side of roads and when you touch > it the leaves react and fold up? that's a cool plant. Found it! It's a tropical weed called mimosa pudica or sensitive-plant, with little pink blossoms. It can be grown as an annual in the North or in greenhouses, where visitors will be amazed at its ability to fold its leaflets anong the midrib when touched. You find it wild at roadside in some of the Gulf states--that's where you live, I presume. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---