I have been given this plant to identify and I know I should know what it is but my mind is now a mush of christmas music and mall rats. if anyone could point me in the correct direction (of the plant's ID not mall rats!!) I'd appreciate it. It was sold as a "monkey paw" and to me Monkey paws are the same as kangaroo paws angiozanthos . clearly not!! thanks for the help Pierrot
Take a look at this googe image search for Ruellia makoyana to see if you can narrow it down to a cultivar from there. Got it on a google search for 'monkey plant' houseplant. Harry
Harry thank you for jogging my memory!! I knew it was familiar but just had a moment thank you again pierrot
Pierrot, Christmas is a hard but good time for everyone. :) And actually I wasn't familiar with the plant. I have seen it, but didn't know the name. I first did a google for 'monkey paws', then 'monkey paws houseplant' as just 'monkey paws' got just that, the paws of monkeys. :) Anyway, that gave a result of 'monkey plant' which gave me the taxon, with a final picture search above to confirm. Google is a wonderful thing. Harry
