Torenia fournieri

The birth flower for September 27

Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park
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Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Flower name
Torenia fournieri
Scientific name
Torenia fournieri
Aliasナツスミレ, Torenia, 夏菫, Wishbone flower, ハナウリクサ, 花瓜草, トレニア・フルニエリ, bluewings
Place of originIndonesia
Place of floweringGarden
Flowering seasonMay, June, July, August, September, October

What is Torenia fournieri

Birth flowers for Sep 27

The birth flower for September 27 is Torenia.

💠💧 The Story of Torenia

by Aqua

Torenia is
a flower that blooms at the start of fall, when a faint trace of summer still lingers,
and it’s like a “drop of coolness.”

Its petals are small,
and shades of blue and purple spread out smoothly.
Those colors are
neither too strong nor too faint—
they just seem to get along quietly with the breeze.

You see, Torenia
loves the shade,
and blooms most beautifully
under the dappled sunlight of trees rather than in direct sunlight.

That’s why this flower
gently embodies
**“gentleness without forcing things.”**

When the breeze blows,
the flowers sway gently,
and that swaying is just like
them saying,
“It’s okay right here.”

I gently shake the droplet and say,

“Torenia is
a flower that gently shines
in the cool shade.”

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Torenia

Torenia (scientific name: Torenia fournieri) is a non-cold-resistant annual plant in the family Linderniaceae native to Indonesia.
The stem well branches. From summer to autumn, the whole inflorescence is extended from the tip of the flower stem and leaf axil, and a small lip shape flower resembling a violet is bloomed.
The upper lip splits with two fissures and the lower lip clearly three fissures. Some of the macula may have a macular pattern at the central group.
Besides the flower color purple reference color, there are deep peach color and white. Tropical Asia it was born so strong in heat and weak in cold.
The leaves are ovate and stick to the stems. A representative variety is Torenia fournieri.
The name 'Torenia' is a disciple of Linnae, a donation name to a botanist Olof Torén who sailed to a merchant ship priest cage Asia and gathered plants and published a travel record. Uses are garden planting, potted plant, hanging planted flowers are edible plants.

Generic name: Torenia,
Scientific name: Torenia fournieri,
aka: bluewings, wishbone flower,
Origin: Indochina Peninsula,
plant length: 20 to 30 cm, stem cross section: square, regeneration:
leaf shape: ovoid, leaf margin: saw tooth,
bilaterally symmetrical flower, flowering period: 5 Moon - October, flower color: purple, peach, white, flower shape: lip shape, flower diameter: 1.5 to 2 cm.