Re: OT-PLANTS: pink wild petunia (Ruellia)

The one I found is either Ruellia humilis or R. caroliniensis.  It is a
bit intermediate with these two - not completely without hairs and the
upper leaves don't have petioles while the lower ones do.  I mowed right
thru the middle of the population - about half have typical blue-purple
flowers, the others are a very nice pink.

Dennis, is your pink Ruellia a cultivar?

<According to our local Ruellia expert and Spuria hybridizer, Dr.
Charlie Jenkins, the pink ruellia is called Chi-Chi.  It's botanical
name is Ruellia Brittoniana.  Patrick Orr
Phoenix, AZ  Zone 9 USA >

<I grow the hairy wild petunia and it's flowers are pink.  I forget
the scientific name. ... R. strepens [or] R. humilis??  Not sure.--
Dennis Kramb; Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6>

<I do know that there is a pink form of Ruellia brittoniana, but that is

a Mexican native, that supposedly is not hardy north of Zone 8.  Mark A.
Cook Florida>

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8



 

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