February 20, 2012

Markings to remind you ...

Botanical name: Justicia betonica
Squirrel tail or white shrimp plant is a graceful and elegant plant, native to India. A beautiful unusual shrimp plant, very rare. Very floriferous plant producing in abundance erect white bracts with a green netting pattern. It’s flowers start out white then turn to pink with age, giving a beautiful contrast. A free branching upright shrub, producing a very attractive tropical inflorescence throughout winther-spring of erect heads of 6” white bracts with pink flowers. Noticeable are the conspicuous bracts and the strongly two-lipped corollas. This plant is very common in Mysore and i took this photograph on 5th December, 2011 just outside the institute, where i work now.

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