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Medinilla speciosa is an evergreen epiphytic shrub from Southeast Asia, grown for its large pink flower panicles and showy pink-to-purple berries. Give it humid, bright, indirect light and keep the mix evenly moist but never soggy.
Medinilla speciosa is a perennial epiphytic plant in the genus Medinilla of the family Melastomataceae.
This plant occurs naturally in Borneo, Java and the Philippines. In Borneo, the plant can be found at the Kinabalu in the Malaysian part of the island. Its distribution includes peninsular Malaysia (Penang, Perak, Pahang, Selangor), Java, Sumatra, Lesser Sunda Isl. (Sumbawa, Lombok), Sulawesi, Moluccas and Borneo.
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