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Mimosa púdica dropped leaves over night 2 years 8 months ago #69990

  • Razvan
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Hello,

I tend to believe that I have a healthy mimosa pudica, growing fast. It fully developed 2 new branches a lot longer and with larger leaves than the existing branches.
One morning, I woke up and one of the 2 branches had all its leaves on the ground. On the other branch, few leaves seemed … bitten of.

Do I have pests? Birds? It it a self protection mechanism to shed leaves?

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Mimosa púdica dropped leaves over night 2 years 8 months ago #70000

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What country do you live in? Mimosas do actually go dormant in the winter. It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Mimosa púdica dropped leaves over night 2 years 8 months ago #70004

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Could be snails.

As an FYI: What you call branches, are actually leaves, so called compound leaves.

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