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Tibouchina barbigera is a small shrub in the Melastomataceae family, native from eastern Bolivia to Brazil. Grow it in full sun with well-drained soil in a warm climate, as it is a tropical plant.
Tibouchina barbigera is a species of flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae, native from east Bolivia to Brazil. It is a small shrub. It was first described by Naudin in 1850 as Lasiandra barbigera and transferred to Tibouchina by Henri Ernest Baillon in 1877. The type specimen is kept in the herbarium at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. A small shrub, T. barbigera is the host to a number of gall-inducing moths.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tibouchina barbigera 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.
