North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement |
Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched | |
prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled | |