Common name: Amazon Blue, Brazilian Snapdragon
Botanical name: Otacanthus caeruleus Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family)
Amazon Blue is a free branching, spreading, small shrub with bluish mauve
flowers with a white eye. Each flower has two conspicuous
petals. Leaves are very fragrant with a smell resembling pine scent. It
prefers acid soil. Amazon Blue is native to South America. In Indian climate
it is an evergreen shrub that blooms most of the year.
Identification credit: Ajinkya Gadave
| Photographed in Pune, Maharashtra. |
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