North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.

synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam.

Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.

synonyms: Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber.

Polish: tryskawiec, tryskacz, ośli ogórek, tryskawiec sprężysty

Prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled.

synonyms: action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, shame plant.

Polish: mimoza wstydliwa, czułek wstydliwy