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Ammannia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. It is native to Africa. This aquatic plant has a branching, prostrate stem that roots at the nodes. The blunt-tipped, lance-shaped leaves are roughly a centimeter long. The small flowers have four purple petals and either 4 or 8 stamens. The flowers occur in small clusters.
Ammannia is a genus of around 100 species of plants often referred to as redstems from wet areas in America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. [1] [2] [3] [4 ...
Ammannia baccifera, also known as the monarch redstem or blistering ammannia is a species in the family Lythraceae.It is widespread in the tropical regions of Asia, America and Africa.
Ammannia senegalensis, also known as copper leaf ammania, is a flowering plant native to western Senegal, often growing as a weed in rice paddies. The stem presents opposite leaves that start out green and rather broad and, later, become more narrow and reddish in colour. The leaves especially become red under intense light.
A gracilis in a 200mm container would usually grow to around 3 to 4 meters in 12 months. The glabra variety features more white on the lower areas of the internodes, giving the plant a striped appearance, and the fusca variety is larger, growing up to 12 meters and would top a 3 storey building.
Chapmannia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to north-central and northeastern Socotra in Yemen . [ 2 ] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests .
The English names walking iris, apostle's iris and apostle plant have been used for many species, regardless of the generic placement (e.g. for Trimezia gracilis, syn. Neomarica gracilis). New plantlets form at the end of the flower spikes; after flowering, the spikes fall over and a new plant grows, so the plant "walks".
Andersonia gracilis is a slender erected or open straggly shrub, that typically grows to 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in) high. Its leaves are more or less lance-shaped, 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long and 1.0–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide, the tips keeled or with a small point.