Ruta Angustifolia

Ruta Angustifolia Care

Ruta Angustifolia

What is the plant

Ruta graveolens (rue or common rue). The leaves are bipinnate or tripinnate, with a feathery appearance, and green to strongly glaucous blue-green in color. The flowers are yellow, with 4–5 petals, about 1 cm diameter, and borne in cymes.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Full Sun

Hardiness zone

4 - 10

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Water regularly (about 2 times a week) but with little amount of water. Fertilize once a month in spring and summer with mineral fertilizer.
Pruning
Rue is a woody perennial that flowers in late spring on fresh, new wood, so the standard practice is to trim the stems down to old wood in early spring, before new growth begins. Old, woody plants benefit from especially hard pruning.
Fertilizer
Apply a complete fertilizer with equal proportions of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to rue in early spring as new growth begins. A typical amount of granular fertilizer is 2 pounds of fertilizer for every 1,000 square feet of soil.

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Sunlight
It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.
Soil
Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils.
Additional
To determine possible toxic effects of Ruta graveolens hydroalcoholic extract in gastrointestinal parasitic infection.