Coleus argentatus

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Plant  information

Common name:               Silver Spurflower

Conservation status:   unknown

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet argentatus is Latin for "silver", referring to its foliage

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are borne on terminal racemes up to 30 cm long, and are bluish white

Fruit:                         

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Leaves:         

• The hairy leaves are ovate to broad-ovate, 5–11.5 cm long, 3–5.5 cm wide with crenate margins

• The hairs give the plant an overall sage green to silvery colour

Stem & branches:   

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Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• Growing to 1 m tall and broad, it is a spreading deciduous shrub

Habitat:   

• It is native to rock outcrops and rainforest in the border region of Queensland and NSW

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Distribution:                  

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Additional notes:     

• Originally described by Queensland botanist Stanley Thatcher Blake

• Cultivation

  • It is cultivated in temperate regions as an ornamental bedding plant for its attractive silvery foliage

  • It strikes readily from cuttings, or can be grown from seed as a half-hardy annual

  • It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit