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Rhinacanthus osmospermus
About
Rhinacanthus nasutus, commonly known as snake jasmine, is a plant native to tropical Asia and the western Indian Ocean. It is a slender, erect, branched, somewhat hairy shrub 1–2 m in height. The leaves are oblong, 4–10 cm in length, and narrowed and pointed at both ends. The inflorescence is a spreading, leafy, hairy panicle with the flowers usually in clusters. The calyx is green, hairy, and about 5 mm long. The corolla-tube is greenish, slender, cylindric, and...
- Family
- Acanthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Rhinacanthus osmospermus
- Slug
- rhinacanthus-osmospermus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Acanthaceae
- Genus
- Rhinacanthus
- Species
- osmospermus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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