A Jaunt to the Woodlands
About this episode
Petey Mesquitey discusses the unique characteristics and names of certain plants encountered during a recent woodland visit.
The common name Firecracker Bush is a good one for Bouvardia ternifolia with its clusters of glowing scarlet flowers that look like small floral explosions, but it can also be one of the many common names for the plant Russelia equisetiformis. Yikes! Sooo, how about the combination of the flower color and the botanical to give us Scarlet Bouvardia. That’s a pretty cool common name! And, I forgot to say that Bouvardia ternifolia is in the Madder family Rubiaceae, but now I have. The photos are mine and taken while on a recent jaunt to the woodlands.
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