Delightful Pink. Ruellia rosea, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Charles Plumier (1646-1703), indefatigable botanist and explorer of the West Indies, in 1703 named our Flower generically for another great and wide-ranging botanist, Jean Ruel (1474-1537), well-known translator of Dioscorides, Materia medica.
Ruellia rosea was described in the second half of the nineteenth century by a variety of botanists under several names. This is the one that stuck, although I'm not sure exactly of the exact meaning of the name by which it goes in the tropical glass house of our fine Hortus: 'Ruellia rosea Mart. & Nees'.
Delightful Pink. Ruellia rosea, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Charles Plumier (1646-1703), indefatigable botanist and explorer of the West Indies, in 1703 named our Flower generically for another great and wide-ranging botanist, Jean Ruel (1474-1537), well-known translator of Dioscorides, Materia medica.
Ruellia rosea was described in the second half of the nineteenth century by a variety of botanists under several names. This is the one that stuck, although I'm not sure exactly of the exact meaning of the name by which it goes in the tropical glass house of our fine Hortus: 'Ruellia rosea Mart. & Nees'.