Freshwater
Water Mimosa
Neptunia oleracea
Facts
Care
We have no care for this plant yet. If you know how it thrives, you can suggest it.
Range
NativeIntroduced
Lives wild in Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, and 57 more countries.
Introduced to Angola and United States.
More about the species
Description
Neptunia oleracea (not to be confused with Neptunia plena) is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is sometimes referred to in English by the common names water mimosa or sensitive neptunia. It 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).
Other names
Other scientific names
- Acacia lacustris
- Aeschynomene herbacea
- Aeschynomene pumila
- Desmanthus lacustris
- Desmanthus stolonifer
- Mimosa aquatica
Articles
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