Chinese violet
நறுஞ்சுவைக் கீரைതുപ്പലംപ്പൊട്ടി
Asystasia gangetica (L.) T.Anderson
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 80 cm
- wide
- —
Acanthaceae
Formerly Justicia gangetica, Ruellia gangetica
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian Subcontinent to N. & E. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, purple, blueRead from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Chinese
- 锈叶野牡丹, 宽叶十万错, 跌打草
- Simplified Chinese
- 宽叶十万错
- Tamil
- நறுஞ்சுவைக் கீரை
- Malayalam
- തുപ്പലംപ്പൊട്ടി, വേലിപടക്കം, വേലി പടക്കം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Asystasia gangetica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.