FlowerPotNursery Persian Shield Plant Strobilanthes dyerianus 6" Pot

Strobilanthes dyeriana, the Persian shield or royal purple plant, is a species of flowering plant in the acanthus family Acanthaceae, native to Myanmar (formerly Burma).

The Latin specific epithet dyeriana honours the English botanist Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928).

Growing to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and broad, it is a tropical evergreen shrub, cultivated for its dark green foliage with bright, metallic-purple stripes radiating outward from the central leaf vein. In proper conditions, it will also produce pale purple flowers.

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