Otacanthus caeruleus
Location Collected: Lehdau, Nett
Collected by: Rosalynda Nakasone
- Genus Species: Otacanthus caeruleus
- Family: Scrophulariaceae
- Chuukese name: None
- English name: Brazilian snapdragon
- Kosraen name: None
- Pohnpeian name: None
- Yapese name: None
- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: Terrestial
- Growth environment: Cultivated Garden
- Growth zone: Tropical
- Average height: 124 cm
- Stem: Woody, presence of hairs- slightly rough surface, brownish
- Leaf arrangement: Opposite
- Stipule: Absent
- Petioles: No petiole- attached directly to the stem
- Leaf blade: Lanceolate, 7 to 7.5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, acute tip, light
green, slightly rough- hairs, serrate, pinnate venation
- Inflorescence: Bilabiate, comprised of exactly 4 flowers joined together at
common base, pedicel- 3.5 cm, no hairs
- Floral bracts: None
- Flower: Actinomorphic, blue, raceme arrangement
- Calyx: Light green, 5 very small calyxes fused together covering the ovary,
no hairs
- Corolla: Fused blue corolla with 2 lobes
- Stamens: None
- Ovary: Inferior, light green, smooth, one carpel or unicarpellate, very
small
- Style: None
- Fruit: None
- Seed: None
- Anything else: Very strong mint odor, habit- it is easily grown outdoors in
a warm climate in any moist and in cool climates- it grows in a sunny conservatory, it
propagates from cuttings, and it produces many weak erect branches terminating in a short,
bracted spike of flowers
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