Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Tibouchina urvilleana
Common name
Lasiandra, Purple Glory Bush
Family
Melastomataceae
Where found
Garden escape. Sydney area and north from there.
Notes
Introduced shrub or tree to 4 m high, sprawling. Bark light gray to pale brown, smoothish, thin. Young stems four-angled and slightly winged, stout, with spreading hairs, ringed at the nodes. Older stems shedding hairy bark and becoming cylindrical. Leaves opposite each other, 4–12 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, surfaces different colours, hairy with soft hairs that are longer on the lower surface; tips pointed. Flowers deep blue-purple, with 5 petals each about 40 mm long. Flowers in branched clusters to 15 cm long, not opening together. Flowers mainly Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tibouchina~urvilleana (accessed 24 April 2021)
CABI datasheet: http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/53848 (accessed 24 April 2021)
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