Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Modern art??, 0 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Those are some beautiful leaves artfully arranged!

Plantlady, acalypha is a huge family including weeds. Chenille plant (A. hispida) and Kitten Tails (A. repens) are grown more for their catkins than their leaves. The copperleaf varieties are grown more for their leaves. The ones grown at Fairchild Tropical Gardens were over 12 foot tall.

Here was a cool acalypha I got last year. Its name is 'Firestorm'.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=acalypha&ie=UTF-8&oe...