Larval Host Plant

Celaenorrhinus leucocera – Common Spotted Flat

Nectar Plant

Tirumala limniace – Blue Tiger
Pareronia hippia – Indian Wanderer

Other notes

Natural History: A shrub found in the Western Ghats of India. Sometimes cultivated for its unique greenish-blue flowers and shrimp-like green spikes. It is also known as Green Ice Crossandra, Neel Sahacharah in Sanskrit and Ekboli in Marathi (Flowers of India, 2022).

References:

Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10:11495–11550. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550.

WFO (2022): World Flora Online. Accessed on 19 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000659420.

Flowers of India (2022). Accessed on 19 Dec 2022. URL: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Green%20Shrimp%20Plant.html.

Page citation

Kawthankar, N. 2024. Ecbolium ligustrinum (Vahl) Vollesen – Green Shrimp Plant. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/ecbolium-ligustrinum, accessed 2024/04/25.