the plant’s name is “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.

In Honduras, they called it dormilona, which means sleepyhead.  Jessica and I would walk around touching them all from the inside out and it looked awesome.  I have a video of it somewhere.

(Source: jaidefinichon, via thingssheloves)