Ruttya fruticosa orange-red flowers with glossy black lower-lip patches and yellow buds among green leaves

Ruttya fruticosa


This plant is an evergreen shrub native to northeastern and eastern Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. Glossy opposite leaves surround orange-red to red flowers, occasionally yellow, with a shiny brownish-black patch at the base of the lower lip. The corolla has an erect, deeply divided upper lip and a three-lobed, downward-curving lower lip. Photographed in Florida.


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