FoI
Squirrel Tail
Share Foto info
Squirrel Tail
P Native Unknown Photo: Pravin Kawale
Common name: Squirrel Tail, rose-spotted white-flowered Justice wort, white shrimp plant • Bengali: পাটল বাসক patela basak • Gujarati: ગુલાબી અરડુસી gulabi aradusi • Hindi: हाड़पात hadpat, मोकंदर mokander, प्रमेहःहराती pramehaharati • Kannada: ಕಾಡು ಕನಕಾಂಬರ kaadu kanakaambara, ಸಣ್ಣ ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ sanna adusoge • Konkani: धवो पोक्षो dhavo pokso • Malayalam: വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunji • Marathi: गुलाबी अडुलसा gulabi adulasa • Odia: ମାଟି ଶାଗ mati saga • Rajasthani: गुलाबी अडूसा gulabi adusa • Sanskrit: श्वेत सहचरः sveta-sahacarah • Santali: ᱛᱟᱭᱟᱨ • Tamil: வேலிமூங்கில் veli-munkil • Telugu: తెల్ల రంతు tellarantu Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Justicia betonica    Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Adhatoda betonica, Justicia pallidior, Justicia cheiranthifolia
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.
Identification credit: Pravin Kawale Photographed in Alibag, Maharashtra.
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,