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Miconia minutiflora

Miconia minutiflora
Photo: Tarciso Leão from Saint Paul, MN, CC BY 2.0

Miconia minutiflora is a tree in the Melastomataceae family, native from Mexico through tropical America and the Venezuelan Antilles. It is a wet-tropical forest species that is rarely grown outside the tropics.

Family
Melastomataceae (Melastomat family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Rich, well-drained, slightly acidic forest-type mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico to Trop. America, Venezuelan Antilles
Climate
wet tropical

About

Miconia minutiflora is a species of tree in the family Melastomataceae. It is native to North and South America.

Other Miconia plants

Miconia crenata · Johnnyberry · Miconia secunpastazana · Miconia subseriata · Miconia abbreviata · Miconia aequatorialis · Miconia albicans · Miconia aligera · Miconia alpina · Miconia ascendens · Miconia asplundii · Miconia aspratilis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Miconia minutiflora 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.

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