PLANT AND ITS BENEFITS

Flower of Teresita or San Pedro.
I have this plant in my garden, I did not know that it had such properties.

_{Teresita or San Pedro in Venezuela 🇻🇪}

It's good to have knowledge and share it with you.

When they gave me the seeds 😄 they germinated immediately and many plants grew with beautiful colors throughout the day it is in bloom.

I have donated many seeds since I received these and I am curious because the color itself does not come out fuchsia, for example: I have a fuchsia seedling (small wedge) and the color has not come out yet, it seems pink, I am waiting for the neighbors to pick up fuchsia seeds and to them if they get the original color.

I've heard this is due to less or more sun ☀️ and the type of soil or compost.

Teresita Flower: This is an ornamental and medicinal plant native to the island of Madagascar.

_{Teresita fuchsia and bloomed pink}

Each flower has 5 petals, various colors, spikes: purple, pink and white.

A decoction of its flowers and leaves is used for eye diseases and as an antibiotic, including conjunctivitis, fleshiness, and blurred vision.

I also read that it regulates blood pressure, cholesterol and cures malaria.

What kind of care do you need?

Water only when the soil is completely dry.

This plant blooms all year round, is no more than a meter tall, has many branches, each flower produces two seeds.

They like it dry and hot.

_{They did not come out fuchsia}

Preparation for the infusion:

Mix 15g of flowers and leaves in a liter of water, let the water evaporate a bit and drink two cups a day.

It is a herbaceous plant or shrub up to 1 m tall, with oblong-ovate leaves, 2.5-9 cm long and 1-3.5 cm wide, glossy green in color, with pale midrib and long, pointed petioles. short 1-1.8 cm; They are in opposite pairs.

The flowers consist of a corolla up to 5 cm in diameter, made up of five petals united at the base in a tube, the length of which can reach the diameter of the corolla.

The calyx consists of five short, straight sepals less than 1 cm long.

In wild plants, the crown is pale pink, rarely white, the base of the petals darker.

Ornamental plants can be a darker pink shade or a combination of shades.

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Note: The images are from my family album captured from my Alcatel_5044C phone