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Rotala mexicana / Mizumatsuba ミズマツバ

Bloom time: August-October

   
Family:
 
Lythraceae /
Misohagika


 

Species in the genus Rotala:


Rotala indica / Kikashigusa
Rotala mexicana /
Mizumatsuba
   

Rotala mexicana / Mizumatsuba ミズマツバ

 
Rotala mexicana: An annual 3-10cm tall that grows in paddies or wetlands. Leaves are 0.6-1cm long and 1-2mm wide, in a narrow lanceolate shape, with truncate tips slightly cleft in two. Flowers are light red and tiny, with no petals and 2-3 stamens. Capsules are spherical, approximately twice as long as calyxes, and rupture themselves into three when matured. Bloom time: August-October.
       
                     
                     
                     

▲AUTUMN #9

 

 

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