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Pleroma elegans
Glory bush (Pleroma elegans) is a Brazilian shrub from the Atlantic Forest, grown for its large purple flowers. It does best in warm, humid conditions with good light and well-drained soil.
Pleroma elegans, synonym Tibouchina elegans, is an ornamental plant in the family Melastomataceae.
The plant is endemic to the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in southeastern Brazil.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pleroma elegans 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.
