Elegant Balsam
Impatiens elegans
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Elegant Balsam
Identify Elegant Balsam by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Alternate.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu.
- Confirm it sits within the Balsaminaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Elegant Balsam.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Impatiens elegans
- Genus
- Impatiens
- Family
- Balsaminaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Shola forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- AlternaterecordedOne leaf per node, arranged in a spiral or zigzag up the stem.
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Elegant Balsam itself; the rest are typical of the Balsaminaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Solitary
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Elegant Balsam itself; the rest are typical of the Balsaminaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Elegant Balsam
Elegant Balsam (Impatiens elegans) belongs to the Balsaminaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu. It grows in shola forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Balsaminaceae
Balsam/Touch-me-not family
Elegant Balsam belongs to the Balsaminaceae family.
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