Mimosa pudica can be grown in a pot, indoors, respecting a certain number of rules, necessary for its development. The sensitive multiplies very easily by seed in a warm place.
The ideal temperature is between 16 and 24°C, with installation in a cool room (15°C) in winter. It can then last a few years (up to 10 years in good growing conditions), if a certain amount of attention is given to it. The location must be bright. A little full sun during the day promotes generous flowering, but never during the hottest hours, as direct rays will damage the foliage. It is a bushy plant, erect when young, but becoming creeping and thorny with age. The leaves are composed of 2 to 4 pinnae divided by numerous pairs of linear-oblong leaflets 3 and 12 mm long and whose underside bears fine hairs. It has pretty bristly glomeruli, formed by numerous very small bell-shaped flowers with 4 long pink stamens with white anthers.