- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Mussaenda erythrophylla
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Rubiaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Red Flag Bush, Chuvanna Mussaenda.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- More or less throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Tropical Africa.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Large spreading shrub, with tomentose branches. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate, silky hairy. Flowers in dense terminal cymes. Expanded sepal rose, pink or scarlet. Corolla-tube yellow, with blood-red cushion at centre.
Uses: Several garden varieties are cultivated in gardens.