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Impatiens dolichoceras is a rare and unique, annual, flowering plant 20-32 inches tall. It has oblong-ovate or oblong-lance-shaped, alternately arranged leaves, pale green below, sometimes turning purple when dry, green above, oblong-ovate or oblong-lance shaped, membranous, both surfaces hairless, margin toothed. The leaf-stalks are winged. The stem is erect, robust, long naked in the lowerRead More

Impatiens dendricola is a rare stemless Impatiens that found growing on tree trunks in evergreen forests. The leaves are drooping, membranous, elliptic to ovate-lance-shaped, blunt, minutely apiculate, rounded or more often narrowed at base, margins rather distinctly rounded toothed, apiculate in sinuses, more or less scattered hairy on the upper surface, hairless below. The bloomingRead More

Impatiens cuspidata is a gorgeous ornamental shrub that grows up to 20-40 inches tall. It has opposite, alternate, or whorled, elliptic-lance-shaped leaves that are sawtoothed, glandular at lower margins, nerves hairy beneath, leaf-stalks 1.5-5 cm long, glandular. The flowers are borne in leaf axils, singly or in fascicles, pale pink or white. The capsules areRead More

Garo Balsam (Impatiens cothurnoides) is an ornamental flowering plant that grows up to 24 inches tall. The leaves are opposite and alternate, linear elliptic to narrow lance-shaped, base narrowing into the stalk or narrowed, margins finely toothed, tip somewhat pointed to shallow tapering, midrib impressed above and prominent beneath, lateral veins about 9-12 on eitherRead More

Green Tail Balsam (Impatiens coelotropis) is an ornamental flowering plant that grows up to 40 inches tall with ranches slender. It has fleshy, ovate-lance-shaped, wedge-shaped leaves that are pointed or rounded at the base, distantly sawtoothed at the margin, pointed or short-tapering at the tip. The scarlet blossoms are borne in leaf-axils, solitary or twoRead More

Impatiens clavicornu is one of the most beautiful flowering plants that grow up to 4-8 inches tall with rootstock tuberous. It has glossy, succulent, circular to heart-shaped leaves with obscurely toothed at the margin. The blooming stem is longer than leaves, up to 15 cm long, bracts ovate. The pink flowers are borne in racemes.Read More

Impatiens chungtienensis (Chungtien Balsam) is an ornamental, annual herb flowering plant that grows up to 14-28 inches tall. It has bright green, ovate-oblong, hairless leaves with margin rounded toothed or sawtoothed, tip tapering. It produces a cluster of 5-7 pink flowers that are borne in upper leaf axils. The capsules are linear-oblong with eight smoothRead More

Chinese Balsam (Impatiens chinensis) is a small annual herb that grows up to 12-24 inches tall. The erect stem is reddish in color, prostrate at the base, slender, hairless. Nodes are slightly swollen, with adventitious roots. It has oppositely arranged, linear- lance-shaped leaves that are gray-green below, green on the upper side, rigidly papery. TheRead More

Impatiens campanulata is an evergreen perennial herb with exotic, orchid-shaped blossoms. It grows up to 18 inches tall and wide. It has lush and satiny, elliptic or ovate-lance-shaped leaves. The exotic, orchid-shaped blossoms appear in panicles of three to five at the tops of the shoots. The markings are brick red on the upper petals,Read More

Impatiens brevicornis is a beautiful, erect flowering plant that grows up to 6-12 inches tall. It has elliptic, oblong-lance-shaped, or linear-oblong leaves, pointed or tapering at tip, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base. It produces gorgeous pinkish-red flowers and the lip is boat-shaped, spur much curved, shorter than wing, often coiled into a complete circle,Read More

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Impatiens dolichoceras – Flowering plants

Impatiens dendricola – Flowering plants

Impatiens cuspidata – Flowering plants

Garo Balsam (Impatiens cothurnoides) – Flowering plants

Green Tail Balsam – Flowering plants

Impatiens clavicornu – Flowering plants

Impatiens chungtienensis – Flowering plants

Chinese Balsam (Impatiens chinensis) – Flowering plants

Impatiens campanulata – Flowering plants

Impatiens brevicornis – Flowering plants