Accession Data

Hemigraphis alternata

Common Name: Red Ivy, Red Flame Ivy

Family: Acanthaceae

Country of Origin: uncertain - perhaps Malay Archipelago

Description: [syn. Hemigraphis colorata (Blume) H.G. Hallier]

Prostrate, rooting perennial; leaves ovate-cordate, to 3 inches long, toothed, bullate, purplish beneath, gray above; corolla white, 1/2 - 3/4 inches long, pollen apparently sterile; fruit never produced.

Nativity uncertain, but probably eastern part of the Malay Archipelago.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10-11

Accession #: 198700127

Accession Date: 1987-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1217

Quantity: 2

Source: SCE/Wellesley

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Acanthaceae

SubFamily: Acanthoideae

Tribe: Ruellieae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.

Images

Hemigraphis alternata