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fc: bright red
| Acalypha hispida 'Alba' |
fc: light pink to cream flowers - species is red
| Acalypha hispida var. pendula = A. repens |
| Acalypha hispida 'White Margined' ('Alba Margined') |
lc: teeth and
very margins creamy white
fc: cream
ns: 'Alba Margined' appeared in Glasshouse Works Catalog 1997 (no
page number)
| Acalypha monostachya RASPBERRY FUZZIES™ (6/5) |
ht: 6 in. tall x 3-4 ft. wide
ha: low spreading carpet to low mound. Appears more decumbent with erect
flowering stems when in bloom.
lc: copper to bronzish-green
fc: pinkish-red
infl: hairy, texture subglobose head - it not an elongated tail as A. repens and
some others.
fq: very floriferous with over 150 heads per plant possible
fc: rose pink to
rose-red, very bright
infl: Glasshouse Works (1997 catalog) state these flowers
resemble "roseate
infl: chenile pendant woolyworms fat on steroids"!
ns: "Strawberry foxtail" is a common name and not a
cultivar name.
| Acalypha repens 'Summer Love' |
fc: pink - apparently less red than species typical
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Beyond Paradise' (10/06) |
lc: mottled orange, red, yellow, and olive
green, at least 40% green in many leaves
lm: dentate
so, in: www.euroamprop.com (online
catalog 2006)
lc: dark blackish-bronze to dark bronze-green, heavily mottled bronze-pink to salmon-pink at 30-50% of surface.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Bourbon Street' (2/4)
|
ht: 3 ft.
lc: green margined cream, later blackish-bronze with copper and pink margins.
Some margins are pale and others are neon pink on the same plant.
in: Athens Select, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA USA and widely promoted by them
so: Dupont Nursery
(online catalog 2004)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Ceylon' |
lc:
reddish-white margined on copper to bronze-red
ls: crested type blade, distinctly twisted
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Cypress Elf' ('Cypress Gardens Elf', 'Mardi Gras') |
ht: 16-24 in.
tall
ha: somewhat pendulous, especially in individual leaves
ls: narrowly lanceolate to irregularly linear, highly cut as if tattered, undulate,
often drooping
lc: bronze-red to medium red, having glowing magenta or hot pink margins.
lu: a very useful even if odd plant, something like a red version of 'Heterophylla'.
It needs some size to
lu: be most effective and elegant, particular as young plants can be thin and
resembling a wilted, dying annual.
or: Cypress Gardens FL USA
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Godseffiana' (A. godseffiana) |
ha: shorter than
species typical
ld: more consistently evergreen under some conditions
lc: margined creamy white to light yellow
or: New Guinea
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Haleakala' |
lc: copper
purple to dark maroon
lm: "filigree edge" or deeply cut and fluted
li: Glasshouse Works 1997 Catalog (no page number)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Heterophylla' ('Godseffiana Heterophylla') |
lc: green
irregularly margined light yellow to cream
ls: linear to lanceolate with numerous irregular teeth - most
cultivars are very
ls: broadly ovate to orbicular so this cultivar is extremely
different.
or: it is apparently a narrow-leaved variant (sport?) of
'Godseffiana'
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.
li: Glasshouse Works 1997 Catalog (no page number)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Hoffmanii' ('Hoffman's) |
lc: bright
medium green with a thin white margin, often with only the very
lc: irregular teeth having the chimera.
lw: narrower blades than some clones
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Inferno' (4/02) |
lc: bright
glowing shades of yellow, orange and red
or: Australia
in: Kartuz Greenhosue (online catalog 2002)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Java White' |
lc: yellow
leaves with a greenish mottling.
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.
li: Glasshouse Works 1997 Catalog (no page number, without
description)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Kana Coast' |
lc: bright yellow mottled and streaked in green, other leaves half green and half yellow
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Kilauea' ('Miniature Firedragon') |
ha: dwarf,
forming small mounds in time
ls: "very tiny spindle-shaped leaves"
lc: dark green to red and copper-pink with irregular cream
margins. Brighter with heat.
li: Glasshouse Works 1997 Catalog (no page number)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Kona Coast' |
lc:mottled green
and yellow
in: Kartuz Greenhouses c. 2002
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Kona Gold' = 'Tequilla Sunrise' |
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Louisiana Red' (7/4) |
ls: broadly ovate
lm: dentate
lc: rich bronze-red, some paler markings, overall quite uniform, lacking some of
the distracting
lc: markings of other dark red cultivars.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Macafeana'
|
lc: Very variable: marked and
tinged red, carmine, orange, olive green, and bronze, often light bronze to dark
pinksih-orange striped
lc: red and mottled olive green, highly showy. Young plants are often the most
colorful or at least those with many vigorous growing tips.
or: before 1875
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Macrophylla' |
lb: cordate
lc: red to bronze or rusty brown with paler red markings and
green tints.
ll: much larger blades than most cultivars. The common name
"giant heart copper-
ll: leaf" gives some idea of the appearance.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Mardi Gras' = 'Cypress Elf' |
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Marginata' |
lc: bronzy-green
to olive green-bronze with pink margins.
ll: larger blades than some species variants.
or: Fiji Islands.
ns: some plants grown as the species are of this variant.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Miltoniana' |
ls: more oblong
than species typical
lc: irregularly margined white
or: cultivated since about 1911 according to Krussman.
| Acalypha hispida 'Miniature Firedragon' = 'Kilauea' |
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Musaica' |
lc: bronzy-green with red to orange markings and spots
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Obovata' |
lc: olive green
margined orange-yellow becoming bronze-green with carmine pink
lc: margins.
or: Polynesia c. 1884
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Petticoat' |
lm: highly
ruffled, the most extreme clone of this leaf form.
lc: bronze with tannish teeth and margins.
eval: GHW says "largest and most furled leaves of any
cultivar".
li: Glasshouse Works 1997 Catalog (no page number)
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Raggedy Ann' ('Razzle Dazzle') |
lc: dark red to
maroon
ls: narrower blade
lm: highly cut and serrate
or: Australia before 2001
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Rex' (2/4) |
lc: bronze tipoed creamy-green
and light pink
so: Glasshouse Works (online catalog
2004)
| Acalypha wilkesiana SIZZLE SCISSORS™ (6/7) |
ht: 22-26 in. tall
lc: green margined magenta-pink
ls: blades linear but narrowly incised, crisped, and irregular toothed.
id: photos suggest this may be the same leaf shape mutation/trait as
id: the popular 'Cypress Elf'. Comparisons of the two are warranted.
in, web: www.euroamprop.com (online
website 2007), 2007 introduction
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Tahiti' |
lc: margined and
splashed yellow-green to pink
ls: blades often twisted
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Tequilla Sunrise' ('Kona Gold') |
lc: speckled and
mottled shades of red, green, and gold.
ll: large blade by cultivar standards.
| Acalypha wilkesiana 'Tricolor' |
lc: splashed
reddish-green to yellow.
li: Yokoi, M. and Y. Hirose. 1978. Variegated plants. Seibundo
Shinkosha.