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What fire can do to a small leaf.
- Categories: Travel & Outdoors
Wonders of Nature
- Gives
rolling up some leaf a whole new meaning
By JonnyChimpo 1152241828 Reply Spam [+4] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1157520- 0
- Touch me not
This plant is called "touch me not" and its leaves are sensitive to even human touch... I used to play with it a lot when I was a kid...
By tekas 1152315679 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1733355 - 1
- .......
DO YOU WANK A LOT???
By lenny the sea lion 1153076793 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove888211 - 2
- dude...
.. you gotta get some friends
By AhmedSammy_office 1152536787 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1512419 - 2
- Touch me not
Yeah, that's a tropical plant...i remember playing with those too.
By fwizzy 1152516359 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1711078 - 2
- " I used to play with it a lot when...
TMI...but I can relate.
By Fat Gypsie Bastard 1152316291 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1081980 - 2
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- woot
self rolling blunt lol just add fire
By chindian89 1152254525 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1721821 - 1
- Argh
WOW,WOW, WOW, WOO, WOW It is so cool that I almost cummed!
By Reality101 1152454167 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1540819 - 1
.. there are plants that u touch it and happens the same thing... doesnt need to set fire on it lol..
its preat cool tho.. then with time it opens again.. then u do it again the its open again... and so on.......lol
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- Yup
I've seen the same thing. It doesn't grow around where I live, anymore, though. Still, I remember it. It's totally freaking awesome!
By HanDuet 1152288220 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove725285 - 1
I grew up thinking it's name was "duntouchme"!
By link- 1152267662 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeits the latin name of the plant.
By sp@sM 1152216062 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
Thats not the fire..thats the leafs defence mechanism..the leaf rolles upp to protect itself from potencial threats..
By Rastafarian 1156880496 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
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By IMPEACH BUSH NOW! 1153004132 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
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you touch your dick with a block of ice
By mabsut 1152379461 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
Hey GUYS ...it like rating NATIONAL GEo documenttries.. X . But I see the relation !
By el_madrli 1152359823 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
The leaf curls because it is protecting itself from the heat.. Now we can all see this- HOW does it do this is the question. When spreadout a leaf has a large surface area to volume ratio. When the heat stimulates / prompts the leaf to contract within itself, the result is a leaf with a surface area to volume ratio that is much smaller. This means that there is less surface area for the leaf to lose water from it's cells, along with creating a smaller area for the heat to hit the cell. (FYI.. )
By nssnskyline 1152359312 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- wow
You almost sound smart. If i was dumb that would have impressed me. I love how you say HOW then don't go into how it does it at all. Then you say smaller area to hit cells when actually the cells on the outside would have more area exposed there are just less cells exposed.
By thatoneguy 1152397918 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove
I bet you are one of those guys who always try to impress people by explaining things and you have dumb friends. Why dumb friends? Because you can impress them and feel superior but smart people see through you and know you are wrong.
I mean that sounded like something a 5th grader would put in a science paper. The words are there and you almost have it right. But the way you arrange them you are dead wrong.
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its that plant that u touch n curls up as a result... got one of those at my backyard
By isra-judoka 1152348787 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- ya
but everyone knows if you are going to tape something it is allways better with fire. Sure they could have touched it but this was just a little bit neater.
By thatoneguy 1152397984 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove892545 - 1
You no longer need a peace of papaer when smoking weed. And it's all natural. Weed and ... leafs. Cool. Let the smoking begin.
By Dan 01 1152346955 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
THIS IS A MAGIC WHO HAS NOT SEEN THIS KIND OF TREES.COME TO INDIA OR SRI LANKA YOU WILL SEE MANY PLANTS OF THIS KIND.
By Bandu 1152341658 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
no more need for rollies!
By dan4289 1152337304 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
just as "sensitive plants"
By Snaggles 1152335770 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
I live in Indonesia. I can see that scrub almost at every ground, especially at farm. Sorry, my English is bad.
By Titit 1152332032 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
I have one, It is a Prear Plant, That Is its botonist name
my Aunt grew them in her green house, They are also
known as a sensitivity plant. It will close its leaves even
if you yell at it. Fire will kill it, It feels abuse just like a
human. It's not nice to hurt mother nature.
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A variety of Mimiosa found all over USA.
Another variety involves Orange Juice and Champagne, and is much more interesting.
Especially when mixed with a young lady.
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its called sensitive grass we have lots of it here in Fiji, udont need to burn it for it to close, just touch it...hahaha computer generated, MC2, fake... what dickheads
By wanker101 1152316021 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
when you touch teh leaves it close itself ...
By its real 1152313634 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
but can someone go to
http://www.imdb. com/t itle/tt03 16396/tr ailers-scre enplay -E18 801-10-2
and find out the name of the song when the girl says "Never is an awfuly long time"? Just reply if you know.
P.S. dont mind the spaces in the web site address and type it in as one full address.
( the trailer is for Peter Pan)
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Also very cool is the "Venus Fly Trap" insect eating plant. Hopefully someone will post a clip of it for those who have never seen it.
By bumble 1152304997 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
It curls on any kinda sensation
By faree 1152302270 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
I can't believe this rubbish is at the top of the Metacafe homepage.
By karljt 1152288976 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
who made this??the fortune??the man??the nature??..No..!!
By Banyadam 1152279537 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
"MAKAHIYA" (shy) in the philippines which is also abundant in other tropical countries
By almighty_axel 1152277819 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
I would like to post just an "oh", can i?.....Oh....
By rubbyhehe 1152275991 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
it's nature for these kind of plant to bend its leaf even when you touch it....
By agent047 1152274045 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- MORIVIVI
There is one similar in Puerto Rico "Morivivi" (DieLive) and grwos close to the ground. It does the same thing to the touch.
By screener 1152286259 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove718901 - 1
i know this leaf... i saw a bit of many in Costa-Rica... its a safty thing... every time the leaf gets touched it closes for 15 minutes
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in tropical indonesia! :D well, actually it really sensitive with touch, not only fire.. and here we call the plant, the "shy princess"
By fbass 1152255972 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
when plants and trees develop a brain. It would be cool.
By cibercitizen 1152253823 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
we've got plenty of plants like that over here.... the leaves will close when touched... it is some kind of defense mechanism i think... or in scientific term, that reaction is called Tigmotropism,.. a reaction caused by touching... almost like Phototropism which is with light...
By hmm... 1152250513 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- no
its a way of reducing the loss of water via evapo - transpiration. it's usually common for plants to have "motor cells" which allow them to do this in hot, arid places
By wow!!!! 1152276311 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove571237 - 1
That's what's cool about it. I've lived in the city all my life and we just don't come across these here, lol.
I didn't even understand what was going on at first until people in the comments explained it.
looks like a caterpillar in a way O_o
By Snooq 1152242204 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
the single most amazing form of matter in the universe, it cuzes physical damage, burns, effects on living organism ( such as leaves), it can b more destructive than any man-made weapon, all that and its only a gas, its the most powerful thing in the world, its only flaw is it needs oxygen, other than that it is perfection
By Man In Twilight 1152241216 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- Can anyone say
ARSONIST!!
By Rugger 1152287717 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove
(hehe just kidding)947922 - 1
- Can anyone say
Get this piece of S**t of the front page of metacafe
By karljt 1152374993 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1686067 - 2
سبØÂانالله
By Bluexs 1152223664 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
That rocks. Again Again!!! ^.^
By KornD 1152208359 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove- 0
- You sound like a tellytubby
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By karljt 1152374931 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove1686067 - 1
SELF ROLLING JOINTS!!
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