Snapping Flower - Knowledgebase Question

Hartford, WI
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Question by johnrobrta
August 3, 1998
When my husband was a kid, one of his friends moms had a plant on the side of her house that flowered, he thinks light purple. When they would squeeze the flowers, they would snap . I said boy, she must have been mad, but he said she never told them to stop and the flowers were ok. Is there a plant that the flower snaps? I would like to get one for him.


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Answer from NGA
August 3, 1998
He's not making it up....my grandma had one too! The flower he is talking about is "Touch Me Not", botanically known as Impatiens noli-tangere. Try this link, its the only place I have ever seen them:

http://www.icangarden.com/chat...

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