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How to distinguish the blue dress

Mike Ehrmantraut
2020-07-15 15:27:20
Flowers: usually blue, the inflorescence is sharply branched and very close, without bracts. The filament grows in the middle of corolla tube, about 5-6 mm long. The length of corolla is 5-6mm, and the lobes are round, with very obvious reticulate veins. Fruit: it is oval, slightly concave on the back. The flowering and fruiting period is from May to September, and the length is about 3-4mm.

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The corolla of the blue cloth skirt is generally blue, the inflorescence is acute angle branch, and it is very close, it is straight up, set as a cone, without bracts. The filament is attached to the middle part of the corolla tube, the length is about 0.5mm, and the corolla length is 5-6mm. The calyx is about 2.5-3.5mm long, with dense pubescence outside. The lobes are oval or oblong, and the apex is very sharp. The pedicel is 2-3mm long, the Corolla is 5-6mm long, the lobes are round, with very obvious network veins.

blue skirt

Fruit

Its nutlets are ovate, slightly concave on the back, densely covered with anchor like spines, with the edge of anchor like spines combined at the bottom, with a length of 3-4mm. The flowering and fruiting period is usually between May and September.

Blue cloth skirt

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