Princess Flower
Tibouchina urvilleana
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Meghalaya
- Flowering
- August-January
How to identify Princess Flower
Identify Princess Flower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Large velvety leaves with big showy purple flowers (princess flower).
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent.
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Meghalaya.
- Confirm it sits within the Melastomataceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Princess Flower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Tibouchina urvilleana
- Genus
- Tibouchina
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Native to
- South America
- Found in India
- Meghalaya
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-January
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- PubescentrecordedCovered in short, soft hairs.“Growing to 3–6 m (10–20 ft) tall by 2–3 m (7–10 ft) wide, it is a sprawling evergreen shrub with longitudinally veined, dark green hairy leaves.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Princess Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Melastomataceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet“Clusters of brilliant purple flowers up to 10 cm (4 in) in diameter, with black stamens, are borne throughout summer and autumn.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Princess Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Melastomataceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- തിബൗച്ചിന ഉർവ്വില്ലിയാന
About Princess Flower
Princess Flower (Tibouchina urvilleana) is a shrub in the Melastomataceae family. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya. Flowering and fruiting run from August to January.
Melastomataceae
Melastome family
Princess Flower belongs to the Melastomataceae family.
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