Silverleafed princess flower
Pleroma heteromallum (D.Don) D.Don
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Melastomataceae
Formerly Lasiandra adenostemon, Lasiandra heteramalla, Lasiandra macrophylla, Lasiandra multiflora, and 7 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Wild in
- French Guiana to E. Bolivia and BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: grows as, climate, light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese (China)
- 银叶野牡丹, 光荣树
- Portuguese
- Orelha-de-onça, Quaresmeira
- Spanish
- Princesa hojas de plata
- Chinese
- 銀絨野牡丹/銀葉蒂牡丹/銀牡丹
- Japanese
- ビロードノボタン
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pleroma heteromallum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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