Miconia ceramicarpa
Sweet Butchberry
Miconia laevigata
(L.) DC. Species
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- Botanical name
- Miconia laevigata
- Also known as
- Sweet Butchberry
- Family
- Melastomataceae
- Genus
- Miconia
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Sweet Butchberry
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Miconia laevigata but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Acinodendron affine
Acinodendron ambiguum
Acinodendron laevigatum
Jucunda bredemeyriana
Jucunda rudolphiana
Melastoma acuminatum
Melastoma ambiguum
Melastoma aspersum
Melastoma brachiata
Melastoma brachiatum
Melastoma cuspidatum
Melastoma expansum
Melastoma laevigatum
Melastoma nicotianifolium
Melastoma pendulifolium
Melastoma piluliferum
Melastoma portoricense
Melastoma striatum
Miconia affinis
Miconia ambigua
Miconia ceanothina
Miconia havanensis
Miconia microcarpa
Miconia nicotianifolia
Miconia parviflora
Miconia pendulifolia
Synoptera levigata
Tamonea laevigata
Ziegera levigata
Others in Miconia
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