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There are some 200 varieties of tibouchina but only a few seem to make it to the local nurseries here. This is Tibouchina heteromalla, which is the "yin" to Tibouchina urvilleana's "yang". T. heteromalla has big beautiful leaves and small spikes of intensely purple flowers, whereas T. urvilleana has small narrow leaves with big bright purple flowers. It isn't really happy in our cold wet winters, and too much sun burns it -- definitely an understory shrub in the tropics. But it manages to survive our coastal Northern CA winters, and is a good-sized shrub whose leaves make people stop and touch them, with those soft white hairs that give it the look and feel of velvet.
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