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Impatiens pallida
The name “Touch-Me-Not” comes from the explosive seedpods, which give no end of entertainment to children and any adults who are not beyond being entertained by natural amusements. The pods have parallel ribs connected by a thin membrane, and the membrane gets thinner and weaker as the pod ripens. At length the membrane can be ruptured by the slightest touch, and then the ribs instantly coil into springs, sending seeds flying in all directions.
It grows in moist to wet soils, generally alongside the closely related Impatiens capensis, producing flowers from midsummer through fall. Apparently native to the United States.
Spotted on Jul 14, 2011
Submitted on Jul 19, 2011
6 Comments
Wow..I did not know at the moment or I would have picked up some :-)
Most important its an Ayurvedic medical plant so its precious..!!
hehee.. they are really colonizing other parts of the planet fast :-)
No wonder it find in North India too..!!
Lars find it in Germany...!!
Thanks Ashish! ..I am a bit puzzled I have found it in a forest in Poland and then it says is native of The United States..perhaps somebody planted them in this place some time before the forest took over (?)
Yellow Impatiens
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