pudica

Botticelli based his figure of Truth on the classical type of the Venus pudica, as well as his own depictions of Venus.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother 2007

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

Archive 2007-01-28 2007

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

I Was Drinking When I Wrote This 2007

Hierome holds, Uxor impudica servari non potest, pudica non debet, infida custos castitatis est necessitas, to what end is all your custody?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

They call Mimosa pudica the ‘sensitive’ plant because if one touches it, the leaves close in on themselves.

The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006

Toward the end of the story, the dew breaker has a dream about being in a garden with his mother, trying to touch a mimosa pudica, or "shame plant," which has leaves that fold up when touched.

Grappling With Haiti’s Beasts 2004

I had discovered the mimosa pudica on a trip, and was awestruck by it — the way it opened and closed.

Grappling With Haiti’s Beasts 2004

I had discovered the mimosa pudica on a trip, and was awestruck by it — the way it opened and closed.

Grappling With Haiti’s Beasts 2004

Toward the end of the story, the dew breaker has a dream about being in a garden with his mother, trying to touch a mimosa pudica, or "shame plant," which has leaves that fold up when touched.

Grappling With Haiti’s Beasts 2004