Editing Mimosa (section)

==Description==
[[File:Mimosa pudica leaves folding when touched 2.ogv|thumb|''[[Mimosa pudica]]'' leaves closing when touched]]
Members of this genus are among the few plants capable of [[rapid plant movement|rapid movement]]; examples outside of ''Mimosa'' include the [[telegraph plant]], ''[[Aldrovanda]]'', some species of ''[[Drosera]]'' and the [[Venus flytrap]]. The leaves of the ''Mimosa pudica'' close quickly when touched. Some mimosas raise their leaves in the day and lower them at night, and experiments done by [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] on mimosas in 1729 provided the first evidence of biological clocks.<ref>Neuroscience; Bear, Connors, Paradiso</ref>

''Mimosa'' can be distinguished from the large related genera, ''[[Acacia]]'' and ''[[Albizia]]'', since its flowers have ten or fewer [[stamen]]s. Botanically, what appears to be a single globular flower is actually a cluster of many individual ones. Mimosas contain some level of [[heptanoic acid]].