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Eranthemum
Eranthemum pulchellum (Eranthemum nervosum, English: blue eranthemum, or blue sage) is a strongly branched shrub, popular with gardeners in tropical India and China because of the spikes of flowers that are bright gentian blue - an unusual color in the tropics. The flowers appear from green-and-white veined bracts that remain after the blooms fall, forming a column several inches long. The hairy leaves are large and dark green. A sprawling shrub which may reach a metre...
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Blue Eranthemum
speciesEranthemum pulchellum
blue eranthemum
speciesEranthemum roseum
Eranthemum tetragonum
speciesEranthemum tetragonum
Konkan Eranthemum
speciesEranthemum capense
Eranthemum suffruticosum
speciesEranthemum suffruticosum
Eranthemum wattii
speciesEranthemum wattii
Eranthemum austrosinense
speciesEranthemum austrosinense
Eranthemum macrophyllum
speciesEranthemum macrophyllum
Eranthemum purpurascens
speciesEranthemum purpurascens
Eranthemum griffithii
speciesEranthemum griffithii
Eranthemum erythrochilum
speciesEranthemum erythrochilum
Eranthemum pubescens
speciesEranthemum pubescens
Eranthemum burmanicum
speciesEranthemum burmanicum
Eranthemum obovatum
speciesEranthemum obovatum
Eranthemum decumbens
speciesEranthemum decumbens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.59
Florum et coronariarum historia
Rembert Dodoens · 1568 · p.239
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.213
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.280
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.232
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.35
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 157253.