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Rouge plant is an herbaceous perennial plant growing from
a woody taproot and with stems that are somewhat woody at the base. The red
fruits are gathered from the wild to be used for dyeing. The plant is widely
grown as an ornamental in the tropics and subtropics, where it is particularly
valued for its brilliantly colored, rather handsome berries. It ranges from
across the southern US to Arizona and through Central America and the Caribbean
to South America. This tough little perennial makes an attractive border plant
or ground cover in shady areas. It grows in low clumps with dark-green
wavy-edge leaves. During much of the growing season, it supports short stalks
of small pinkish-white flowers and red berries, both at the same time. In late
fall, the leaves and stems turn purplish-red.
The slender
stems become slightly woody with age, especially near the base of the plant.
Younger stems are greenish in colour and mostly hairless (i.e. glabrous). The
simple leaves are alternately arranged along the stems and are borne on stalks
(i.e. petioles) 1-5 cm long. Their blades (3-13 cm long and 1-5 cm wide) are
oblong or narrowly egg-shaped in outline (i.e. narrowly-ovate) with entire
margins and pointed tips (i.e. acuminate apices). They are hairless (i.e.
glabrous) or sparsely hairy (i.e. puberulent). The whitish flowers are arranged
in elongated clusters (4-8 cm long, lengthening to 5-15 cm long in fruit)
in the forks of the upper leaves (i.e. in axillary racemes). Numerous small
flowers are produced in each of these clusters, each being borne on a short
stalk (i.e. pedicel) 1-4 mm long. These flowers have four small ‘petals’ (i.e.
perianth segments) 1-3 mm long and four stamens. The ‘petals’ are initially
white or pinkish but turn greenish as they mature. Flowering occurs mostly
during spring and summer. The fruit are small rounded (i.e. sub-globose)
berries that contain a single seed. These fruit (3-4 mm across) turn from green
to bright shining red (occasionally orange) as they mature. The rounded seeds
are 2.5-3.5 mm across.
Growing Instructions
1. Prepare a mixture of half potting soil and half sand,
perlite or vermiculite. Water the mixture so that it is moist but not wet.
2. Put the seeds on the soil.
3. Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil.
4. Water the seeds.
5. Place the pots in an area with warm temperatures in
full sun or part shade.
6. When the seedlings are a few inches tall, they can be
transplanted.
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Easy to grow beautiful
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