Blue Tongue (Melastoma Affine)

The Blue Tongue ( Melastoma Affine) is a fast growing, evergreen, bushy shrub with attractive dark green, leathery foliage and contrasting red stems. It's large showy, mauve to purple flowers last only a few days but are produced over many months and in some areas throughout the year.

Flowers followed by blue-black fruit with a sweet, edible flesh which stains the mouth. With regular pruning from an early age is shape hardy to a wide range of soils and situations, but sensitive to dry conditions and frost. An attractive hardy shrub suitable for tropical to warm temperate regions.