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Bertolonia

Bertolonia
Photo: User:BotBln, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Melastomataceae (Melastomat family)

About

Bertolonia is a genus consisting of 14 species of pretty, dwarf, creeping, tender perennials, native to tropical South America. These herbaceous plants are grown for their colorful, velvety, ornamental foliages, vary from shimmery white with purple, pink with purple, or bronze-green with carmine and lighter midribs, purple beneath. Leaves are coarsely hairy, oval 7 cm (3 in) long on short stalks. The plants bear clusters of small, bell-shaped flowers repeatedly, just above the leaves, color ranges from pink, red, yellow to purple.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertolonia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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