Rose Grape
Medinilla magnifica Lindl.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.0 m
- wide
- —
Melastomataceae
Also called Showy medinilla
Formerly Dactyliota bracteata, Medinilla superba
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Hemiepiphytic shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Philippines (Luzon)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Red, pink, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 15 °C (USDA zone 12b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Czech
- tupoušek pyšný
- Chinese (China)
- 粉苞酸脚杆, 宝莲花
- Filipino
- Kapa-Kapa
- Chinese
- 寶蓮花, 宝莲灯, 粉苞酸脚杆
- Russian
- Мединилла великолепная
- Spanish
- Linterna rosa de Filipinas+
- Finnish
- medinilla
- Slovak
- medinila veľkolepá
- French
- Kapa-kapa
- Filipino
- kapa-kapa
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Medinilla magnifica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.