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Bush strawberry
Melastoma cyanoides
About
Melastoma cyanoides, commonly known as bush strawberry, is a species of plants in the family Melastomataceae native to parts of Indo-China, Malesia, New Guinea and the state of Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub to about 2 m tall with white flowers and red, spiky-looking fruit. It grows in and on the margins of rainforest; in Australia is occurs from sea level up to about 700 m (2,300 ft). The species was first described by botanist James Edward Smith in 1819, based on a collection from Ambon in Indonesia.
- Family
- Melastomataceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melastoma cyanoides
- Slug
- melastoma-cyanoides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Genus
- Melastoma
- Species
- cyanoides
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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