Impatiens balsamina

• Botanical Name : Impatiens balsamina L.
• Common Name : Garden Balsam
• Plant Family : Balsaminaceae
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 6, 21, 27
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Van Chetana Kendra

About Impatiens balsamina Plant :

• Habit : An annual erect, herb with stem glabrous or pubescent, slightly branched.
• Leaves : Alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, deeply serrate, glabrous, decurrent into a glandular petiole.
• Flowers :
  • Rose-coloured, showy, pedicellate, axillary, slender, pubescent, shorter than the leaves.
  • Sepals minute, ovate.
  • Standard small, orbicular, retuse, horned.
  • Wings broad, the lateral lobes rounded, the terminal sessile, very large.
  • Lip small, boat-shaped, mucronate.
  • Spur short or long incurved.
• Fruit : Capsules tomentose, seeds reticulate.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : September-April
• Significance : Grown as an ornamental plant.