Mimosa albida Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

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The mimosa albida, is a beautiful plant native to America and its different countries from the north to the south, this plant has extraordinary pink flowers with a good resemblance, the mimosa is distributed in a warm or semi-warm habitat it can be observed in different places such as near rivers, in forests and in places abundant with vegetation.

Although it has a beautiful mimosa flower, it is a plant with many medicinal properties from pain to inflammation previously, it was used by its ancestors when I refer to ancestors it is to the men of the past of Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia their countries of origin where they used the roots of the plant as a medicinal treatment, It may still be used today, but not very often.

Among the common names that we find of the mimosa albida we have Aha uini, another is Ahabiinl, another would be Aja muni otamí, another very common one is the sleepy thorn and another, of the best known is the shameful one, as you can see no name is similar to the other but it is necessary to highlight that it is the same plant only with different names.

The mimosa albida belongs to the kingdom within its classification to that of plantaem, its division within the kingdom is Magnoliophyta and its class is Magnoliopsida; in turn this beautiful plant is in the order of the Fabales, its family is fabaceae, its subfamily is mimosoideae and its species within the kingdom is mimosa albida.

In the following sections we are going to know an important part of this plant from its characteristics, who discovered it, among other relevant aspects of the mimosa albida a plant that is a species of shrub.

The characteristics of the mimosa albida a species of shrub are very important for any observer or person interested in the study of this plant, the leaves are quite thin and are individual, which means that they are born from the stem separately because there are other leaves that form a flower from the growth of the stem.

This shrub is erect and its shape is straight.

The height of this plant is approximately 4 meters.

Its branches are striated, trigose, hypsid and puberulant and are very infrequently or almost never galabrous.

They have 1 pair of pinnae, 2 pairs of leaflets.

The apex is acute and can also be mucronulated.

The pecicoles are spiny and defenseless.

The stipulates are lanceolate and can also be subulated.

The heads of the plant are globose and axillary.

The bracts measure one-third of the length of the corolla of the species.

The fruit it produces is oblong with approximate measurements of 1.5 to 3.5 cm long and 4 to 8 mm wide.

Flowers

The flowers of this species and many others are the most important in any description, in the case of the mimosa albida they are pink and have a beautiful appearance so much so that when observed from afar they can look like cotton flakes or fluff, since they are very delicate.

Its shape is globose and they expel pods that the fruits of the plant have, if you look closely the flower has some white dots that seem to shoot at the tips of them, another of the plants that has a beautiful flower is the Ageratum a medium-sized plant and different species.

Mimosa seeds

The seeds of this plant have a nice color, they are brown and have a fissure line half a cm long in the seed or that crosses an edge of the seed.

These seeds are lenticular, their measurements are 3.5 to 4.3 mm long and wide, they measure 3 to 3.6 mm, the thickness of the seeds is 1.5 to 1.7 mm, they are small and can be sown in a seedbed and then transplanted.

Mimosa Distribution

This beautiful plant or shrub is distributed throughout North America and South America, its countries of origin are Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico, where they are very common in tropical jungles they can be distributed in other parts of the world or the same continent either for their remedies or for their beauty.

Habitat of the mimosa albida

The habitat of the mimosa albida is quite warm and semi-warm, temperate climates are perfect for the plant to reproduce, deciduous rainforests are part of the habitat of this small shrub, the most frequent places can be near rivers, roads, among others.

It is an evergreen plant of robust environments such as xerophilous scrubland, mixed pine forests, cloud forests and mountains among other places similar to these you can see these plants with their striking and colorful flowers.

Taxonomy and etymology

The mimosa albida was scientifically discovered by Mr. Carl Ludiwig Willdenoy, who described the plant as a species in 1806 with 4 editions of his different books.

The name of this plant is due to a Greek derivative where mimos means imitator and albida, under the Latin epithet it has as its meaning the word color white, hence the meaning of its name mimosa albida.

Mimosa albida: Everything you need to know about this species (hablemosdeflores.com)

 

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