Ruellia coccinea 25/10 Restock a small piece of local

a small piece of local botanical interest close to home

and moisture-retentive borders

Though the shrub grows wild in wet places

where the plant flowers and fruits nearly year round

revered for centuries across China and Japan for tangy-sweet berries and an elegant

Ruellia coccinea 25/10 Restock a small piece of localRuellia coccinea belongs to the acanthus family and comes from the Caribbean, native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, where the plant grows as a scarlet flowered subshrub in warm, humid woodland. The Spanish common name, Yerba Maravilla, reads roughly as marvel herb, a fitting nod to the near constant show. Through the whole of summer R. coccinea produces slender tubular flowers about an inch long, each opening into five spreading scarlet lobes,