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Still Blooming . . .Shamrock,,,
Purple-Leafed Oxalis, Shamrock,,, have it for the first year, did the picture just yesterday - the leaves are more beautiful than the flower.
The leaves are deep purple-black around the outer margin, with the inner portion maroon-purple. The presence of purple pigmentation is common in oxalis leaves.
Flowers are an inch long, white, five-petaled trumpets in a loose terminal cluster that tend to flop about. This species is native to Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay and seems to have been cultivated in this country since the 1930s. There is no known record of where the purple-leafed form came from.
Still Blooming . . .Shamrock,,,
Purple-Leafed Oxalis, Shamrock,,, have it for the first year, did the picture just yesterday - the leaves are more beautiful than the flower.
The leaves are deep purple-black around the outer margin, with the inner portion maroon-purple. The presence of purple pigmentation is common in oxalis leaves.
Flowers are an inch long, white, five-petaled trumpets in a loose terminal cluster that tend to flop about. This species is native to Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay and seems to have been cultivated in this country since the 1930s. There is no known record of where the purple-leafed form came from.