Botanical name: Heterocentron elegans    Family: Melastomataceae (Melastome family)
Synonyms: Hypostate elegans, Heeria elegans, Rhexia elegans

Elegant Spanish Shawl is a sweet little groundcover looks simple and refined when not in bloom, and closely similar to Spanish Shawl. But once it comes into bloom, it is a showstopper, with red hairy bracts holding disproportionately large flowers. It is different from Spanish Shawl in that the flowers have 4 pink petals, instead of 5. Leaves are ovate-elliptic. Elegant Spanish Shawl is native to Tropical Africa, culltivated worldwide as a garden plant.

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The flower labeled Elegant Spanish Shawl is ...