An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...
Also, its red bracts, the leaves around the tiny yellow flowers, were the source of a dye, and its milky sap was used for medicinal purposes. In the Aztec language Nahuatl, the plant is called ...