Ravenia spectabilis vivid pink flowers among glossy green leaves covered with water droplets

Ravenia spectabilis


Ravenia spectabilis is a shrub in the citrus family, native to Cuba and Haiti. It grows in tropical forests and scrublands. Its opposite compound leaves usually have three leaflets with a papery to leathery texture. Flowers occur singly or in small clusters and have a cylindrical tube opening into five spreading lobes, colored deep pink to purplish red. Two fertile stamens and three whitish sterile stamens occupy the flower throat. Photographed in Florida.


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