Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.141

c5.s5.141

Guṇaratna also gives a list of plants that exhibit the phenomena of Sleep and Waking. He also notices the sensitiveness to touch of plants like the Mimosa pudica (लज्जावती—hence the name) which show a manifest reaction in the form of contraction. (लज्जालुप्रभृतीनां हस्तादि-संस्पर्शात् पत्रसंकोचादिका.)