See also: Mimosa (homonymy)

Mimosa is a kind of trees of the family of the Mimosaceae or according to phylogenetic classification, of the big family of the Fabaceae and the subfamily of the Mimosoideae . It includes/understands nearly 400 species.

List species

The kind Mimosa includes in particular:
  • Mimosa aculeaticarpa Ortega
  • Mimosa arenosa (Willd.) Poir.
  • Mimosa asperata L.
  • Mimosa borealis Gray
  • Mimosa casta L.
  • Mimosa ceratonia L.
  • Mimosa diplotricha C.Wright ex Sauvalle
  • Mimosa dysocarpa Benth.
    • Mimosa dysocarpa VAr. dysocarpa Benth.
  • Mimosa emoryana Benth.
  • Mimosa grahamii Gray
    • Mimosa grahamii VAr. grahamii Gray
  • Mimosa hystricina (Small ex Britt. and Rose) B.L.Turner
  • Mimosa latidens (Small) B.L. Turner
  • Mimosa will laxiflora Benth.
  • Mimosa malacophylla Gray
  • Mimosa microphylla Dry.
  • Mimosa nuttallii (cd.) B.L. Turner
  • Mimosa pellita Kunth ex Willd.
  • Mimosa will pigra L.
    • Mimosa will pigra VAr. L.
  • Mimosa pudica L will pigra. - the Sensitive
  • Mimosa quadrivalvis L.
    • Mimosa quadrivalvis VAr. hystricina (Small) Barneby
  • Mimosa roemeriana Scheele
  • Mimosa rupertiana B.L. Turner
  • Mimosa schomburgkii Benth.
  • Mimosa strigillosa Torr. and Gray
  • Mimosa will tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. (= Mimosa hostilis )
  • Mimosa texana (Gray) Small
  • Mimosa turneri Barneby
  • Mimosa verrucosa

Remarkable species

  • the Sensitive (or Mimosa pudica ) named thus because of the movements of retractation of its sheets at the time of a rubbing. It is the sensitive one besides which is at the origin of the word mimosa , used by the botanists of the 16th century ( bleached on grass mimosa ) and derived from Latin mimus (= MIME) in order to express the idea of movement.

  • the Mimosa will tenuiflora (= Mimosa hostilis ) is famous to be at the base of the ajuca or vinho of jurema , a ritual drink Hallucinogène in certain ethnos groups of South America. It is about an old worship announced in a chronicle of 1788 and another of 1843. The active ingredient isolated from Mimosa will tenuiflora is the NR, N-diméthyltryptamine.

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