messagetohumanity:

the plants name is called “makahiya” and hiya in tagalog means “shy”.

whenever you touch the plants leaves, they immediately fold up together looking as if its really shy hence the name.

I used to play with these all the time in Ghana

In Indonesia we called it Bunga malu :)
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