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Get it between 2025-01-07 to 2025-01-14. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Grows up to 3-6 in. tall AND 1-5 ft. wide
Performs best in full sun to part shade. It can be anchored in pots of soil or pea gravel at the ponds' edge, with some water over the crowns and with stems extending out into the water, but it is usually floated on the water. Soil pH: Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
This plant is cultivated as a vegetable in southeast Asia (leaves and shoots have cabbage-like flavor). Young ends of stems and pods are edible and usually eaten raw as a vegetable in Thailand and Cambodia and cultivated much like rice. The young leaves, shoot tips and young pods are usually eaten raw or in stir-fries and curries such as kaeng som.
Propagated by seeds and stem fragments that are dispersed by water
Overwinter indoors in an aquarium when outside fall temperatures drop to 50F
This very unique flower plant may scare you when you touch it! It has movements called seismonastic movements which react to touch.
Package Includes: 250 Water Mimosa Seeds
Neptunia oleracea, commonly known in English as water mimosa or sensitive neptunia, is pantropical nitrogen-fixing perennial legume. Genus and common name come from Neptune, god of the sea, in reference to the aquatic habit of some species in the genus. Its specific epithet oleracea means "vegetable/herbal" in Latin and is a form of holeraceus (oleraceus)