ON THIS PLANT
Melastoma affine, also known by the common names blue tongue or native lassiandra, is a shrub of the family Melastomataceae. Distributed in tropical and sub-tropical forests of India, South-east Asia and Australia, it is a plant of rainforest margins. Bees are the principal pollinators of this species.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Melastoma
- Family
- Melastomataceae
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