Buy Beautiful Strobilanthes glomeratus Plants for Your Garden
Original price
Rs. 99.00
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Original price
Rs. 99.00
Original price
Rs. 99.00
Rs. 99.00
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Rs. 99.00
Current price
Rs. 99.00
- Common name:
- Strobilanthes
- Category:
- Shrubs
- Family:
- Acanthaceae or Crossandra or Thunbergia family
- Light:
- Sun growing, Semi shade
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate less, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Flowers
- Flowering season:
- February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November
- Flower or Inflorescence color:
- Purple, White
- Foliage color:
- Green
- Plant Height or length:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Form:
- Spreading, Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
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- Indigenous (native to India)
- Good for making bonsai
- Good for Hedges and Borders
- Good for Edges ie very small hedge or border
- Attracts bees
- Suitable for road median planting
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Old variety plants may be difficult to get
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Plant Description:
- - Want a different looking shrub? This one is sure to foot the bill.
- A dwarf shrub with horizontal, quadrangular, tomentose branches attaining a height of 1.5 m.
- Leaves opposite, ovate, 6-10 cm long, toothed, acute, tomentose on both surfaces, upper surface deep green.
- Flowers bluish purple, funnel-shaped in terminal or axillary clusters, bracts oval, showy pinkish purple, persistent, corolla tube 2 cm long, lobes 5, bluish violet, 1.5 cm across.
- The showy bracts of this dwarf shrub, which appear during summer and rains, look like flowers. -
Growing tips:
- - Can be grown in pots as well as the ground.
- Pruning is done after flowering to keep the plant in shape.
- Will grow in any soil. Prefers slightly acidic soils.