Rosa Vitaelo

The flower is known as Rosa Vitaelo, a slight modification of the Latin phrase "rose of life", and it is crucial to the work I do with a variety of creatures. (See the Ruby's Critters segment of this guide for examples.) It is a beautiful plant with red leaves and vibrant flowers and an interesting root structure.
E/N: It's not beautiful, it's kind of unsettling. It's like a rose with extra thorns and a reversal of the usual color scheme. And for some reason it smells like mint.
It's not commonly known on Earth. I suspect this is because it is a relatively recent creation of a lab and thus unknown to most of the world. And also it doesn't do well in any of the usual places. A few deserts can manage to foster the plants. There are some abandoned warehouses and haunted houses that it seems to thrive in. Interestingly, Earth's Moon has a greenhouse where it flourishes in great numbers, contradicting my theories that the vitaelo only does well when isolated from other plants, including itself.
As a purpose to the plant, it's incredibly useful to my work as a bio-geneticist. Or whatever the term for "person who creates new animals by splicing various DNA" is. The leaves of the vitaelo can be ground down into a compound that allows such creations to grow at an exponential rate, and safely. Once the compound wears off, the creature will continue to grow at a normal rate without any damage done to its life cycle. With some refinement, I can even make it so that the compound only operates up until adulthood and then stops, thus preventing premature aging through careless application.

E/N: Ruby doesn't know how she knows what this plant is, or where to find it, or what it does. I suspect it has something to do with her powers and exposure to a large number of geneticists during the vulnerable time period around her amnesia incident. It is entirely likely that the vitaelo is one of their creations.