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Melastoma sanguineum
About
Melastoma sanguineum is called red melastome or fox-tongued melastoma in English. They are erect shrubs or small slender trees with medium-sized violet-pink colored flowers with 6 petals that have made them attractive for cultivation. The leaves have the 5 distinctive longitudinal veins (nerves) typical of plants in the family Melastomataceae.
- Family
- Melastomataceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Melastoma sanguineum
- Slug
- melastoma-sanguineum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Genus
- Melastoma
- Species
- sanguineum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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