Mirabilis jalapa L.

Family: NYCTAGINACEAE

Genus: Mirabilis

Catalan common name: Flor de nit. Llampedro. Meravella de nit. Mirabajà.

Spanish common name: Bella de noche. Dondiego. Dondiego de noche. Falsa jalapa. Maravilla de noche. Maravilla del Perú. Periquitos. Sanpedros.

Province distribution: Balearic Islands.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): America

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Garden plants. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Gardens and naturalizated.

Characteristics: This flower is well known by the aroma of its flowers that only open during the night. A plant that can reach 1,5 m. in height. The ovate leaves are pubescent on the reverse, with petiole that is larger as we move towards the ground. The flowers can be of various colours, pinks, yellows, reds, are terminal and arranged in groups.