Features:
Common name: Flowering Black Princess
Family: Melastomataceae
Origin: South America
Height at maturity: 2 meters
Hardiness: -5°C
Exposure: sunny, partial shade
Plant type: ornamental shrub
Vegetation: perennial
Foliage: deciduous
Flowering: spring
Flower color: red and black
Soil type: ordinary to rich even limestone
Watering: Normal
Use: in the garden in the ground, isolated, container culture
Diseases and Pests:-
Toxicity: –
Storage of seeds: 2 years in a dry place away from light at 3/4°C (refrigerator)
Description:
This small shrub reaches the size of 2 meters high and 2 meters wide. In spring, its greyish branches are covered with a multitude of drooping flowers with a parma-red calyx and purplish-black petals.
Very rare plant and very little cultivated outside its area of origin, it is a very beautiful ornamental plant to discover.
It comes from South America and grows naturally from an altitude of 2000 meters.
