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Mussaenda Philippica Aurorae
Doña Aurora is a shrub or small tree, 3 to 5 meters high. Leaves are opposite, broad-ovate, with short-pointed tips, dark green and glossy. Calyx lobes are expanded into white or greenish-white, large, leaf-like, oval bracts; the green blade expanded with short-acute or blunt tip. Flowers are small, tubelike, expanded into 5, ovate lobes, yellowish orange in color.
The cultivar is native to the Philippines, popularly grown in most towns and cities.
Spotted on Jul 15, 2012
Submitted on Aug 28, 2012
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