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Blue/Cape Plumbago

Plumbago auriculata

Description:

the bunch of flowers was about the szize of a teenager fist

Habitat:

at the coast, nearby houses

6 Comments

Saarbrigger
Saarbrigger 12 years ago

@Ashish: It was more liek a bush and as I saw the pictures in the web of "Acanthaceae" it looks moire liek a singel flower.

@Karen, Susan and Alice: More and more I come to the conclusion it could be a Plumbago. If it was ticky I do not remember. On think is mixing me up the bunch of flowers look for me liek as if they would grow a bit different as a Plumbago.

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

This is Plumbago. Was it sticky, catching onto your hair or clothes. You may have a different name.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Daedalacanthus is its Synonym.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Aren't these are from Eranthemum...?
(Acanthaceae)

Saarbrigger
Saarbrigger 12 years ago

@Susan, your suggestion brought me to "Plumbago auriculata", but I'm not sure. Looks really like a typ of "Plumbago..."

SusanEllison
SusanEllison 12 years ago

blue plumbago?

Saarbrigger
Spotted by
Saarbrigger

Calvi, Corse, Tromelin Island

Spotted on Jul 23, 2011
Submitted on Aug 5, 2011

Spotted for Mission

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