Torenia or Torenia fournieri commonly known as wishbone flowers is a seasonal flowering plant that blooms flowers from spring to fall. It is a small-sized beautiful Flowering Plant with blue pink or white flowers that have little Yellow markings on it. The leaves are about 3 inches long, slender, sticky, hairy, oval, toothed, and pale green in color. The blue-colored Torenia plant is sometimes known as the Bluewing plant because of its blue-colored wing-shaped petals.
Usage
The wishbone flowers are ornamental flowers and people mostly use them for decoration purposes. People often plant this in beautiful lines in front of their Houses to grow beautiful flowers. And increase the apprentice of their house frontiers. Additionally, the flowering plant is also used as an ayurvedic medicine by physicians for treating gonorrhea and curing cornea infections. Lastly, the dual-colored flowers attract a number of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
Styling
You can Style this pretty flowering plant in different types of beautiful planters like round-shaped wooden or ceramic planters and place this plant at various locations in your house, such as roof-garden, windows, and balconies. And you can also use these plants for boundaries as hedges or lanes. The alluring flowers will make it a hundred times better anywhere you place it. But please make sure, the placing area has to have partial shade or full sun.
About
With the botanical name Torenia Fournieri it is a member of the Linderniaceae family and is native to the tropical and subtropical areas of Asia. And you can find these plants mostly around the western ghats of India. It can be growing up to 6 to 12 inches in height and 6-9 in width.
Place or plant these attractive flowering beauties near your home entrance to welcome people beautifully! For more such amazing plants, click here.