Coloration ranges from brownish, bluish or purplish gray dorsally with lighter shades ventrally. Tamarind heartwood is reddish brown, sometimes with a purplish hue. The corolla is white or reddish to purplish red in color. Staminate flower heads have stamens surrounded by whitish or purplish florets. Vinyl ester resin tends to have a purplish to bluish to greenish tint. It is a shade of grey that has a bluish purplish tinge. Young shoots have purplish or greenish-white, hairy bark. Eggs measure under an long and are white or cream-colored with brownish or purplish spots. Its coloration is a deep, metallic violet to purplish brown above and creamy white below. Eggs&colon; Smooth, spherical, pale purplish red. They are broad, with numerous dark red to burgundy to purplish brown tepals. These petals are usually white or yellow, purplish, or blue. They can be almost any shade of yellow, orange, red, purplish, brown, white, or bicolored. "Tropaeolum brachyceras" has yellow flowers with purplish markings on wiry, climbing stems. They can be red, orange, purplish, yellow, or even white.