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Chaetogastra gracilis is a South American species of the melastome family, native from Venezuela south to northeast Argentina in wet tropical and subtropical areas. Little cultivation information exists, so care advice below is general for melastomes of this type.
Chaetogastra gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is native to much of South America, from Venezuela in the north to northeast Argentina in the south. It was first described in 1823 by Aimé Bonpland as Rhexia gracilis. Its synonyms include Tibouchina gracilis.
Chaetogastra ciliaris · Chaetogastra clinopodifolia · Chaetogastra cornuta · Cane Tibouchina · Longleaf Glorytree · Chaetogastra mollis · Chaetogastra rufipilis · Chaetogastra versicolor · Chaetogastra · Chaetogastra anderssonii · Chaetogastra campii · Chaetogastra grossa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaetogastra gracilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
