Species · genus Medinilla · Melastomataceae

Medinilla formosana

Medinilla formosana Hayata

Growth habit

Unknown

Native range

Taiwan

Reference · M. formosana

Cultivars of M. formosana

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under M. formosana yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Medinilla formosana is a Melastomataceae native to Taiwan, where its relatives grow in warm, humid forests as understory shrubs and often as epiphytes on tree trunks. Give it bright indirect light out of direct sun, warmth, and steady humidity, and water when the top inch of mix has dried — its fibrous roots resent sitting wet. Use a fast-draining, airy mix and err toward slightly dry between waterings rather than soggy.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-12d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 12 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–29 °C

Soil mix

Airy, humus-rich mix with orchid bark and perlite

Propagation

Stem cuttings under warmth and high humidity

Fertilizing

Balanced liquid feed monthly in spring and summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Cascading pink flower panicles under warm, humid conditions

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-12d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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