The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Ruizia boutoniana, known by its native Creole name boucle d'oreille, is a shrub in the family Malvaceae. It is endemic to Mauritius.
The species was first described as Trochetia boutoniana by Francis Friedmann in 1981. It was renamed in 2020 when genus Trochetia was subsumed into Ruizia.
Ruizia rosea · Ruizia cordata · Ruizia parviflora · Ruizia · Trochetia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ruizia boutoniana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
