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Brillantaisia lamium- False Tropical Sage

Eric in Orlando

By Eric in Orlando
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Eric in Orlando Grand Master

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Brillantaisia lamium has started flowering. It is actually an Acanthaceae, not a sage relative (Lamiaceae). The blue-purple coloring is nice.

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Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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aussiearoids Grand Master

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THis is a really bad weed in the wet tropics , it has run amuck in the Whyanbeel Valley and around my area . Has been spread in pot plants . It is extremely hard to eradicate .. quick destroy it ..

http://www.wsq.org.au/brillantaisia.html

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Michael in palm paradise,

Tully, wet tropics in Australia, over 4 meters of rain every year.

Home of the Golden Gumboot, its over 8m high , our record annual rainfall.

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I've seen that they are weeds in other places. This one was planted last year but we have another that has been inground for about 3 years and no seeds. But the one in your photo looks different. I think maybe the names are mixed up here as I have ssen the ones being sold in FL as B. nitens and B. guianensis.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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