Flower Of Ruellia Tuberosa. We report composition of Ruellia tuberosa L. Corolla-tube 4-6 cm long expanded at the top purple.
And scanning the resulting images for wild petunias with flowers of our color and shape and leaves of our leaves shape soon it became apparent that probably we had Ruellia tuberosa. Ruellia tuberosa is a low-growing perennial herb with tuberous roots growing to a height of a foot or more. The 3rd largest tropical family of dicotyledonous plants with about 2500 species most of which have medicinal values Burkill 1985.
Herb to 50 cm tall roots tuberous.
But thats a sloppy way to identify things so I looked up technical details for Ruellia tuberosa. A common name for Ruellia is Wild Petunia. Flowers purple to blue. But thats a sloppy way to identify things so I looked up technical details for Ruellia tuberosa.