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Melastoma polyanthum
About
Melastoma affine, also known by the common names blue tongue, straits rhododendron or native lassiandra, is a shrub of the family Melastomataceae. Distributed in tropical and sub-tropical forests of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia, it is a plant of rainforest margins. Bees are the principal pollinators of this species.
- Family
- Melastomataceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melastoma polyanthum
- Slug
- melastoma-polyanthum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Genus
- Melastoma
- Species
- polyanthum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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