More than 2200 species of the wild flora and fauna photographed in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico and the surrounding area.
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Myrtles, Evening Primroses and Allies of Zihuatanejo
ORDER MYRTALES
Mexican Primrose-Willow
Ludwigia octovalvis
Flowers by Colour
-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)
-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)
-Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies (Order Myrtales)
-Evening Primrose Family (Family Onagraceae)
-Primrose-Willows (Genus Ludwigia)
-Mexican Primrose-Willow (Ludwigia octovalvis)
Ludwigia octovalvis is a species of flowering plant in the Onagraceae family known by the common name Mexican primrose-willow. Its flowers are yellow in appearance. on of green and red stems. Found mostly in humid places, damp grassland, rice-fields, ditches, by water-courses, swamps, lakes and pools, drains, sandy or silty floodbanks, gravelly riverbeds, floating logs in lagoons etc; also in old native gardens and coconut plantings. Often harvested in the wild for medicinal and anti-aging properties.
