Blue Spur Flower Toilet Paper. And on a dewy morning it doubles as a wet wipe seriously it does. Showy bluish purple flowers bloom throughout much of the season depending on climate.
Here s a photo of it growing at my place where i use it with my outdoor compost toilet and you can see the plants and me talking about it in this video from what i ve read this plant grows well in zones 8 10. Toilet paper that is. The blue spur flower was once so sought after as a natural toilet paper and still is in some remote regions that is was planted along the path to the outhouse so users could keep it handy when they were about to do their business.
Erect shrub 2 3 m tall with young stems covered in short fine hairs.
The thick velvety stems support plump pale grey green leaves with intense purple undersides. Common mallow indian coleus pink wild pear tropical hydrangea large leaf aster blue spur flower tips on using plants as toilet paper while the listed plants are generally non toxic some people may. Blue spur flowers are biennial plants that are also often called the indian coleus or coleus forskohlii. Blue spur flower botanical name plectranthus ecklonii family lamiaceae mint also known as plectranthus where is it originally from.
