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Hippobroma longiflora, Rapuntium longiflora, Isotoma longiflora
A low annual herb, erect, spreading, branched or simple. smooth or slightly hairy, about 30-50 cm high. Leaves are alternate, soft, and lanceolate, with or without stalks, with serrate margins, narrow at both ends, pointed at the tip. Flowers are white, five-lobed and star-shaped. borne singly at the axils of leaves. The five lobes ae linear, denticulate, about 1.5 cm long. Calyx is green and five-angled. source: http://www.stuartxchange.com/Estrella.ht...
Cultivated in gardens. Found along drains, along rice paddies.
Spotted on a garden in Tagaytay City growing on a bonsai tray with another plant.
Look alike White Tibey(Laurentia longiflora) we called it in India as Lamb Ghanti(Long Bell)
Spotted on Jul 21, 2011
Submitted on Jul 24, 2011
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