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Exacum travancoricum is a rare, threatened annual herb from the southern Western Ghats of India, forming a low, branched cushion with fleshy leaves and pale blue flowers. It is a wild species of high-elevation hills and is not commonly grown, so care guidance is general and based on related Exacum plants.
Exacum travancoricum is one of the rare and threatened plants of Western Ghats. It comes under family Gentianaceae. Moderately to much branched usually laxly cushion-like herb with elliptic, somewhat succulent leaves and usually solitary terminal pale blue to blue flowers. Endemic to southern Western Ghats at 950 to 1800 meters elevation (Ponmudi, Agasthyamala and Tinnevelly hills). Flowers during July - November.
Leaves dense, fleshy, 1-1.5 x 0.6-0.8 cm, elliptic-ovate, obtuse to round at apex, attenuate at base; margins thin; midrib prominent.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Exacum travancoricum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
