Schaueria flavicoma - Golden Plume

Scientific name: Schaueria flavicoma

Common name: Golden Plume

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Brazil

Category: Perennial shrub

Photo taken at: rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama

How to grow

Light : Full sun to partial shade

Soil : Well-drained, pH neutral to slightly acidic

Water : Moderate

Prune : 

Propagate : Stem cuttings

Features: Attract bees, butterflies and birds. Can grow up to 4ft tall

Asystasia gangetica 'Alba'

Scientific name: Asystasia gangetica 'Alba' 

Common name: Chinese Violet, Coromandel, Creeping Foxglove, Ganges Primrose, False Snapdragon Family: Acanthaceae 

Origin: Hort.

 Category: Perennial, herbaceous ever-flowering creeper 

Photograph taken at the Rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama

Sanchezia speciosa - Gold Vein Plant

Scientific name: Sanchezia speciosa

Synonym: Sanchezia nobilis

Common name: Gold Vein Plant, Shrubby Whitevein, Yellow Sanchezia, Zebra plant

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Tropical America

Category: Flowering shrub

Photo taken at: Fraser's Hill

How to grow :
Light : Full sun, partial sun or shade
Water : Moderate
Propagate : Cuttings
Features : Ornamental flowers and foliage, suitable as an indoor plant. Flowers attract birds. There is a variety with variegated foliage.

Justicia brandegeeana - Shrimp Plant

Scientific name: Justicia brandegeeana 

Synonym: Beloperone guttata

Common names: Shrimp Plant, Mexican Shrimp Plant, Shrimp Bush, 

False Hop, Brazilian Shower Plant, Fountain Plant

Family: Acantghaceae 

Origin: Mexico

Category: Shrub

Photo taken at: Secret Garden of 1-Utama

How to grow :
Light : Full to partial sun
Water : Moderate
Propagate : Cuttings
Features : Free-flowering. Suitable specimen plant or applied in mass planting in hedges, beds and borders. Flowers attract bees, butterflies and birds.

Justicia betonica - White Shrimp Plant

Scientific name: Justicia betonica

Common name: White Shrimp Plant, Squirrel's Tail
Malay name: Ekor Tupai, Tapak Murai

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Tropical Asia

 Category: Shrub

Photo taken at: Secret Garden of 1-Utama

How to grow : 

Light : Full to partial sun

Water : Regular, High

Propagate : Cuttings

Ruellia tweediana - Mexican Petunia

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Scientific name: Ruellia tweediana

Synonyms: Ruellia malacosperma, Ruellia brittoniana, R. coeculea, R. simplex, R. spectabilis

Common name: Mexican Bluebells, Mexican Petunia, Florida Bluebells, Spanish Ladies

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Tropical America

Category: Semi-shrub

Photo taken at: Rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama

How to grow :

Light : Full sun to partial shade

Soil : Well-drained

Water : Water regularly as it requires lots of water

Propagate : Cuttings or seeds. They tend to self-seed easily in Malaysia.

Features :
There are 2 distinct varieties:
1. The compact or dwarf variety of about 30 cm tall. This variety self seeds easily
2. The variety with longer shoots and leaves the plant is taller, i.e. grow to about 1 m tall. The local council has planted many of these plants along road dividers and roundabouts.

Both are suitable as bedding plants. This plant attracts butterflies.

Megaskepasma erythrochlamys - Brazilian Red Cloak

Scientific name: Megaskepasma erythrochlamys

Common name: Brazilian Red Cloak

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Venezuela 

Category: Perennial shrub

Photo taken at: Secret Garden of 1-Utama

How to grow : Light : Soil : Water : Prune : Propagate : Features :

Justicia scheidweileri (Porphyrocoma pohliana) - Brazilian Fireworks

Scientific name: Justicia scheidweileri

Synonyms: Porphyrocoma pohliana, P. lanceolata, Amphiscopia pohliana, Orthotactus pohliana

Common names:

Rose Pine Cone, South African Acanthus, Jade Magic, 

Purple Shrimp Plant, Blue Shrimp plant, Brazilian Fireworks

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Brazil

Category: Evergreen herbaceous perennial  

Photo taken at: Secret Garden of 1-Utama 

How to grow : Light : Soil : Water : Prune : Propagate : Features :

Crossandra infundibuliformis - Firecracker Plant

Scientific name:  Crossandra infundibuliformis

Common name: Firecracker Flower

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: India and Sri Lanka

Category: Flowering shrub, herbaceous perennial

How to grow : Full to partial sun, moderatge watering, propagate by cuttings

Strobilanthes hamiltoniana - Chinese Rainbell

Scientific name: Strobilanthes hamiltoniana

Synonyms: Strobilanthes colorata, Stobilanthes flaccidifolia, Diflugossa colorata, Goldfussia colorata
 Incorrectly applied named: Strobilanthes cusia

 Common names:
Indian Blue Bell, Chinese Rain Bell, Assam Indigo, Pink Strobilanthes, Vein Leaf Acanthus

Chinese name: 叉花草 (cha hua cao - forked/branched flowering plant)

Family: Acanthaceae
 Origin: Himalayan region of India, Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar
 Category: Herbaceous perennial shrub
Photo taken at: The rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama 

Otacanthus caeruleus - Amazon Blue / Brazilian Snapdragon

Scientific name: Otacanthus caeruleus 

 Common name: Amazon Blue, Brazillian Snapdragon

 Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Brazil

 Category: Perennial shrub

Photo taken at: the rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama

Justicia carnea - King's Crown

Scientific name: Justica carnea

Common name: King's Crown, Brazilian Plume Flower, Flamingo Flower, Jacobinia

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin : South America

Photographs taken at: The Secret Garden of 1-Utama

Today is ABC Wednesday, Round 8

J is for .....

Justica carnea, Jacobinia!
Yes, I'm JUST in time for this meme,
This is not a JOKE but this flower is a thing of JOY!
This JUICY pink flower is called the King's Crown,
Is the unique name the JOB of the court JESTER?


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