Plant-Id

[mistitikimikis]

After a long time searching I get stuck to ID this plant. Somebody can help me and can give me a hint??

http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/FLORAMYDIGITALHERBARIUM-1/Various-plants/Various-plants-1/12945041_QhTmCS#!i=1673978573&k=q7XBNKL&lb=1&s=A

Edited April 8, 2013 by mistitikimikis

[cooked]

Did you btake this foto yourself? What kind of environment, damp, forest....?

[mistitikimikis]

Photo is mine (as all are in this site); forgetting the location but working back through my other galleries (by date and time) I came out at Chiang Mai, surroundings the Ping river, so in December neighbourhood Ping should have been damp, however the plant wasn't growing in swampy soil but in a neighbouring garden with normal soil.

Edited April 8, 2013 by mistitikimikis

[chinnotes]

This is a member of the family Acanthaceae, it belongs to genus Crossandra. Crossdra we can find from Africa to South-East Asia, there exist more than 50 different species. This one seems ot be Crossandra infundibuliformis, which is native to countries from India to malaysia, it is sometimes cultivated. In English this plant is called "firecracker flower". This plant is sometimes cultivated and then has often a slightly different appearance.

Another picture you find here:

http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/Crossandra.infundibuliformis1.250a.jpg

Erwin

[xen]

My first reaction it was one of the "Shrimp Plants" and probably a justica (Justicia brandegeeana ) also a member of Acanthaceae . The justica i have grown have a purple underleaf and are quite brittle but extremly easy to propagate with a cutting. I have only seen pink or white flowers and is an extremmly useful plant for shady areas such as under trees.

There are quite a few other shrimp plants too with very similar flowering.

Mistitikimikis , hope this helps and gives you an idea of where to start looking.

[mistitikimikis]

THANKS for the help Erwin! A very nice site by the way, but one must be experienced to go throught it I think! The more of my photos I don't know the more complicated it gets for me, but that's also not only the plants but also the insects.

[mistitikimikis]

Excellent xen, because I think I also have this plant somewhere in my "unidentified" files. Again, one must really expirienced and know where to start (family etc.), even "easy" looking flora like this one in the link underneeth I cannot find in the more popular sites like Google images and even Flickr groups.

http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/FLORAMYDIGITALHERBARIUM-1/Trees/Unidentified/16238095_gQp8JK#!i=1281758222&k=tGt4Q3c&lb=1&s=A

Seeing "your" shrimpplant I can remember now that I have seen them in Holland as a house-plant but never knew this name.

[mistitikimikis]

This is a member of the family Acanthaceae, it belongs to genus Crossandra. Crossdra we can find from Africa to South-East Asia, there exist more than 50 different species. This one seems ot be Crossandra infundibuliformis, which is native to countries from India to malaysia, it is sometimes cultivated. In English this plant is called "firecracker flower". This plant is sometimes cultivated and then has often a slightly different appearance.

Another picture you find here:

http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/Crossandra.infundibuliformis1.250a.jpg

Erwin

I shifted the photo into "plants, various" as I don't expect to find a lot more of these plants.

[mistitikimikis]

My first reaction it was one of the "Shrimp Plants" and probably a justica (Justicia brandegeeana ) also a member of Acanthaceae . The justica i have grown have a purple underleaf and are quite brittle but extremly easy to propagate with a cutting. I have only seen pink or white flowers and is an extremmly useful plant for shady areas such as under trees.

There are quite a few other shrimp plants too with very similar flowering.

Mistitikimikis , hope this helps and gives you an idea of where to start looking.

Thanks very much xen! Could (not yet) find it in the mess of files. As I said it's very hard to ID flora as a dummie on it's own!

[xen]

The justica is a "new world" plant introduced to Europe and later Australia and possibly asia during the Gardenesque period and is usually found in very old (colonial) gardens . I found mine when working in a garden that belonged to a plant collector .It is a native of Mexico . Like i said it is useful in dry shady conditions .

Crossandra is a new plant to me , so thanks to Edwin i have found another plant . So many interestering plants to discover.

[mistitikimikis]

The justica is a "new world" plant introduced to Europe and later Australia and possibly asia during the Gardenesque period and is usually found in very old (colonial) gardens . I found mine when working in a garden that belonged to a plant collector .It is a native of Mexico . Like i said it is useful in dry shady conditions .

Crossandra is a new plant to me , so thanks to Edwin i have found another plant . So many interestering plants to discover.

Interesting! The "shrimp plant" (Dutch: garnalenplant) I remember now of at least about 40 - 50 years ago as a room-plant and never seen again until you pointed me at it.

I'm struggling now to get everything a bit organized in my "digital herbarium" but......................pffffffffff