Popping Pod
உரூலியா டுயூபரோசாശിവകരന്തপটপটি ফুল
Ruellia tuberosa L.
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Acanthaceae
Also called Minnieroot, Sheep potato, Kencana Ungu, Duppy Gun Shot
Formerly Dipteracanthus clandestinus, Ruellia clandestina
When it flowers
Flowers January and March to November in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to N. South America and Peru, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- VioletRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
AcerolaFlowers February and December, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers February and December, when this does not
AshokaFlowers February and December, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers February and December, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers February and December, when this does not
BrazilwoodFlowers February and December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- hierba del toro
- Chinese
- 塊根蘆利草, 块根芦莉, 块根芦莉草
- Indonesian
- Pletekan
- root
- ti patat, Duppy Gun Shot
- Chinese (China)
- 芦莉草
- Thai
- ต้อยติ่ง
- Russian
- Руэллия клубневая
- French
- Ruellie tubéreuse
- Slovak
- vencovník hľuznatý
- Japanese
- ムラサキルエリア
- Simplified Chinese
- 芦莉草
- Tamil
- உரூலியா டுயூபரோசா
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ruellia tuberosa (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.