Great Rift Valley
The flowers look like little puffballs and resemble those of the cultivated mimosa tree, 
which are in the same family. The leaves have evolved into many tiny leaflets (pinnae) 
that can turn to absorb sunlight or close up to avoid it to reduce transpiration

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