Common name: Squirrel's tail, White shrimp plant • Hindi: Mokandar • Tamil: Velimungil • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा Gulabi Adulasa
Botanical name: Justicia betonica Family: Acanthaceae (Barleria family)
Squirrel tail is a graceful and elegant plant, native to India. A beautiful
unusual shrimp plant, very rare. Very floriferous plant producing in abundance
erect white bracts with a green netting pattern. It’s flowers start out white
then turn to pink with age, giving a beautiful contrast. A free branching
upright shrub, producing a very attractive tropical inflorescence throughout
winther-spring of erect heads of 6” white bracts with pink flowers. Noticeable
are the conspicuous bracts and the strongly two-lipped corollas.
| Photographed in Alibag, Maharashtra. |
Identification credit: Pravin Kawale
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