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Tinantia pringlei
About
Tinantia pringlei, sometimes known as the Mexican inchplant or spotted widow's tears, is a perennial alpine plant in the dayflower family native to northeastern Mexico. The species is grown as an ornamental plant in temperate areas for its attractive spotted purple foliage and lavender flowers. It is also a common weed of greenhouses. The plants reproduce primarily or exclusively through self-pollination.
- Family
- Commelinaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Tinantia pringlei
- Slug
- tinantia-pringlei
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Genus
- Tinantia
- Species
- pringlei
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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