Melastoma malabathricum
“Blue Tongue”
SHRUB 50CM TO 3 METRES TALLRounded rainforest shrub, attractively veined foliage with leaves to 12cm long, mauve-purple 5cm flowers in summer & sweet edible fruit which will the tongue blue! Long flowering and hardy but frost tender. Attracts Miskin Jewel butterfly.
| Suitability | |
|---|---|
| Category | Small Shrubs up to 2m |
| Family | Melastomataceae |
| Aspect | Full Sun / Filtered Sun |
| Soil | Adaptable, Moist |
| Habitat | Sub-Tropical Rainforest |
| Features | |
| Bird Attracting, Bush Food Plants, Butterfly Plants, Edible Fruit Plants, Fire Retardant plants, Wetland Plants | |
| Localities | |
| Annerley, Archerfield, Buranda, Burbank, Carindale, Chandler, Coopers Plains, Deagon, Doboy, Eagle Farm, Eagle Junction, Enoggera Catchment, Grange, Gumdale, Hamilton, Hemmant, Hendra, Herston, Kalinga, Karawatha, Kelvin Grove, Lindum, Logan City, Lytton, MacKenzie, Mansfield, McDowall, Meeandah, Moorooka, Mt Gravatt East, Murarrie, Myrtletown, Newmarket, North Stradbroke Island, Nudgee Beach, Pine Rivers, Pinkenba, Priestdale, Queensport, Ransome, Rocklea, Salisbury, Seventeen Mile Rocks, South Stradbroke Island, Spring Hill, Stafford, Stafford Heights, Sumner, Tingalpa, Toombul, Trinder Park, Wakerley, Wilston, Woolloongabba, Wynnum West, Yeerongpilly, Yeronga | |
