Looking at the soft and cute mimosa , where can there be something bad? Does Mimosa have thorns?
We raise mimosa, and what we like more is the leaves that are shy when touched, and large areas of fall down, making people unable to help but want to bully them hard.
Look at this neat little feather leaves, and it doesn’t seem like they have a thorny feeling, right?
Not only is the leaves smooth and regular, but the flowers are also soft and cute little flower balls, which are not only cute.
Little do you know that the appearance of mimosa is soft and cute, but the whole plant is really thorny.
After a closer look, the tender part is all furry structure, and the entire plant is covered with dense small cilia. If you look closely, it is always easy to appear thicker hairs between these small cilia, just next to the nodes, that is, where leaves grow.
Let’s take a look. This is vividly reflected in the pods of mimosa. Some friends joked that the fruits were caterpillars with thorns.
Look at the position of the stem, are there any traces of thorns?
young stems are no exception. Look, there are also on the branches.
Let’s enlarge it a little more, and the thorn is at the position of the leaf, that is, the position of the node.
It's so lively here. First, you can grow leaves, and then flowers can grow inside the leaf armpits. There are slender leaves at the intersection of the leaves and stems, and small thorns are also found next to each other.
Fortunately, the thorns of mimosa only appear on the fruit and stems. Strictly speaking, the edges of the fruit cannot be completely called thorns, so the thorns will not appear on flower balls or feathered leaves, so there is still no problem when you touch them.
However, after all, mimosa is also the main source of thorns. When pruning, evenly seedlings or transplanting, be careful.
Perhaps this is true for everything in the world, it seems weak, and there is no shortage of measures to protect yourself. Isn’t the shyness of mimosa or the existence of thorns a kind of self-protection? In fact, we are only a few seeds away from mimosa. Let's continue to talk tomorrow~
