Les &/or Claire wrote or quoted:
Joe Fogey wrote:

I grew one a few years ago. They get pretty big. The nice thing about
them is that the leaves close at night.

Just peeked at them in the bathroom ( their first night indoors as
houseplants ) and your right! They do remind me of the sensitive plant,
perhaps a relation using the same mechanism from a different stimulus?

They are both types of Fabaceae.

The family names:

``Fabales; Fabaceae; Mimosoideae; Mimoseae
Fabales; Fabaceae; Caesalpinioideae; Detarieae; Tamarindus''

- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi
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