Ruellia simplex from beautiful mexico,..

in #photography3 years ago

Hi all..
this time I want to show you a beautiful purple flower, I took it using the Oppo A92 cellphone camera, even though it's not as beautiful as you've seen but not bad tapi
this flower is named
Ruellia simplex (Britton wild petunia, Mexican petunia, Mexican bluebell) is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae. These are the natives of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. It has become a widespread invasive plant in Florida, where it was probably introduced as an ornamental before 1933.

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Ruellia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as ruellias or wild petunias. They are not closely related to petunias (Petunia) even though both genera belong to the same euasterid cluster. This genus is named in honor of Jean Ruelle, herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several of Dioscorides' works. Despite the large number of previously independent genera that are currently considered to be identical to Ruellia, the genera separating Blechum, Eusiphon, Polylychnis and Ulleria often belong to Ruellia. Acanthopale, however, is considered a distinct genus. Ruellia is a popular houseplant. Some are used as medicinal plants, but many are known or suspected to be poisonous. Their leaves are food for some Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) caterpillars, usually Nymphalinae and especially members of the Junoniini tribe. Nymphalinae uses Ruellia as a host plant including common buckeye (Junonia coenia), recorded in R. nodiflora, lemon pansies (Junonia lemonias), recorded in R. tuberosa, and malachite butterflies.
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