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Pollia condensata
About
Pollia condensata, sometimes called the marble berry, is a perennial herbaceous plant with stoloniferous stems and hard, dry, shiny, round, metallic-looking blue fruit. It is found in forested regions of Africa. The blue colour of the fruit, created by structural coloration, is the most intense of any known biological material.
- Family
- Commelinaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pollia condensata
- Slug
- pollia-condensata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Genus
- Pollia
- Species
- condensata
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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