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Ruellia elegans
Also called Brazilian Ruellia
Ruellia elegans is a subshrub from eastern and southern Brazil, grown for its soft green mounds and scarlet tubular flowers that appear from spring until first frost. It is often treated as an annual but reseeds and behaves like a perennial in mild climates.
Ruellia elegans is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a subshrub native to eastern and southern Brazil, where it grows in the Cerrado ecoregion.
It is used as an ornamental plant, and it is pollinated by hummingbirds. Large scarlet-red blooms on & off from spring until first frost. Can take full sun with adequate moisture like in a tropical location but best in shade.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ruellia elegans 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.
