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Popping Pod, Duppy Gun and Cracker Plant |
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 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Waterkanon, watrakanu | |
| Scientific name | Ruellia tuberose L. | |
| Family | Acanthaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaves opposite, wide lanceolate, rpominant vein on lamina. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | ||
| Fruit/ seed | Capsule-fusiform, clothed all over with glistering white hygroscopic hairs, when dry appearing mucronate by the hairs covering at the apex. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Garden and waste places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to December | |
| Associated with | Off field flora | |
| Habit | Erect, much branched with fasciculated tuberous, fleshy roots. Stems many from the woody base simple or sparingly branched, 4-gonous. | |
| Inflorescence | One to few flowered, blue to violet or deep blue. | |
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