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Petrea volubilis L.
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Synonym |
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Petrea amazonica
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Family |
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Verbenaceae |
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Local name |
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English -Purple Wreath |
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Flowering and fruiting period |
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December-May |
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Distribution |
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Native of Tropical America |
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Distribution in kerala |
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All Districts |
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Habitat |
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Grown as garden plant |
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Endemic/Exotic |
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Exotic |
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Key botanical characters: Shrub, twining to
suberect, up to 6 m tall, hairy. Leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic to oblong,
5-20 cm long, 2.5-10 cm broad, asperous, entire or wavy at margin, usually
acute; petiole 1-1.5 cm long. Racemes terminal, up to 30 cm long. Flowers
blue or pale violet; pedicel 7-8 mm long. Calyx petaloid, tube 2-3 mm long,
lobes 12-18 mm long, 4-6 mm broad, oblong; throat scales triangular, acute.
Corolla salver-shaped, bright blue, tube infundibuliform, pubescent above and
densely hairy near stamen insertion within; anterior lobe largest. Fruit somewhat
obovate-oblong, enclosed within the hardened calyx. |
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