Ruellia makoyana (common names: Monkey Plant)
Ruellia makoyana
Ruellia makoyana is a member of the genus Ruellia and is commonly known as Monkey Plant.
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Joined 23 Mar, 2008
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Comments on Ruellia makoyana
14 Nov, 2008
This is a very healthy plant for being grown indoors. You definitely have a greenthumb.
On photo - monkey plant baby
6 Jun, 2008
Very pretty...it looks very similar to an episcia...are the leaves furry like an African Violet?
On photo - monkey plant bloom
3 Jul, 2008
This is a lovely plant, amazing bloom color and the foliage has a nice dark purplish, green tint to it. I've never seen this one before. I don't grow many house plants.
On photo - monkey plant in the sun
18 Jun, 2008
Thanks jacque. This one comes with so much fulfillment. Really a mess once the blooming really gets going, dried flowers and even seed all over the place. I give them a real good shake now and then. I'll test some seed and see if its good, then I can spread this around!
On photo - monkey plant in the sun
14 Nov, 2008
A cut of the new tips would stimulate new branching, thus more tips to bloom on when the flush comes. I haven't cut them unless its to make new cuttings and let my overwintered plant make new growth on older leafless stems. This is my first serious year with them. Since its your spring a nice snip could get you a fuller plant with more blossoms. Hywel has a blog for overwintering his fuschias, they seem to have alot of branching, more than mine with no snip. :-)
On photo - reullia blosom
14 Nov, 2008
talking about hard cut back, I've read somewhere here that I have to cut the tips of the fuchsias to allow it to grow... am I right about it?
by "ton sur toon" i meant the mix of light and dark green... light veins and dark tips of the leaves
On photo - reullia blosom
13 Nov, 2008
Thanks Aleyna. I like this plant, it really gives a full flush of flower sometimes. This one is older and needs a hard cut back, but I haven't been that brave...lol. Its even a little felted. I had to look up ton sur ton, it is, pleasing in any season.
On photo - reullia blosom
12 Nov, 2008
cute flower, lovely leaves, i like the "ton sur ton" of the greens
On photo - reullia blosom
18 Nov, 2008
Similar flower to streptocarpus, a long trumpet. But its leaves are very thin and the plant a little more woody. It seeds at every bloom as well, I don't know strepocarpus to be so prolific. I can't seem to google any information about any relation either. Maybe tasteyg :-)
On photo - Ruellia
17 Nov, 2008
Thanks. :-) I like this one and can never lose it. It seed prolificly and cutting take pretty easily. Its also very rewarding.
On photo - Ruellia
16 Nov, 2008
Really like this one Greenthumb! Very lovely leaves and the flower is a pretty colour that compliments them.
On photo - Ruellia
16 Nov, 2008
These are very fullfilling. White veining MT, purple undersides and the leaves are a bit felted. Its really stunning full flower, the pink can equal the green, but this one need a good cut to get stimulate another good flowering. Just a few at a time these days. It'll go year round with a little maintainance.
On photo - Ruellia
15 Nov, 2008
Lovely plant GT :) So bushy and full. Get's cute little flowers too, I see.
On photo - Ruellia
15 Nov, 2008
What a very attractive plant. Such a soft green and is the centre "skeleton" silver?
On photo - Ruellia
Members' notes...
This plant flowers often and seeds prolifically. I took it out of a terrarium cause it was taking over. My mother plant has stopped growth and flowering. Not leggy, but I'm gonna cut it back anyway, see if I can get it going again. Really pleasing plant. I have another from the seeds, really trouble free. Never has got a bug even in flower, which can happen easy indoor gardening like I do. Nice white veins, purple undersides of leaves and velvety white stems. Doesn't like much direct light. Always a joy, this is one that flowers through winter as well as long as it is kept from any chill.
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Joined 23 Mar, 2008
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15 Nov, 2008
Thanks. This one bloomed thick all summer and has outgrown its pot. They do best cut back hard I've learned rather than potted on. Real active seeders.
On photo - monkey plant baby