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Ruellia villosa

Ruellia villosa
Photo: João Medeiros, CC BY 2.0

Ruellia villosa is a wild flowering plant from the Cerrado savanna of central and eastern Brazil, rarely grown in gardens. Like other Ruellia, it likes warmth, bright light and well-drained soil.

Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water when the top few centimetres of soil are dry; reduce in the cooler, drier season.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil or a standard potting mix with added grit.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ruellia villosa is a species of flowering plant native to the Cerrado ecoregion of central and eastern Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Other Ruellia plants

Ruellia acutangula · Ruellia affinis · Ruellia angustior · Ruellia asperula · Ruellia bahiensis · Browne's Blechum · Ruellia brevicaulis · Tropical wild petunia · Ruellia californica · Carolina wild petunia · Ruellia currorii · Ruellia densa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ruellia villosa 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.

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