Commelina tuberosa is an herbaceous perennial plant in the dayflower family which is native to Mexico but grown worldwide as an ornamental plant. It is characterized by its purple-splotched spathes with free margins, its bright blue petals of equal size, by Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s Les Liliacées a tome of plant species of and related to the lily family. Produced from 1802 – 1816, the plates are drawn from Empress Josephine’s extensive collection of plants in her gardens at Malmaison,

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