General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Suitable Locations: Houseplant
Uses: Suitable as Annual
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem

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Common names
  • Coleus
  • Painted Nettle
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Coleus scutellarioides
  • Synonym: Solenostemon scutellarioides
  • Synonym: Plectranthus scutellarioides

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Location: My garden, central NJ, Zone 7A
Date: 7/11/15
Coleus Pele
Location: Central NJ
Date: 9/11/14
Coleus Pele
Location: My garden, central NJ, Zone 7A
Date: 2016-07-03
Coleus Pele
Comments:
  • Posted by NHJenDion (Southern NH - Zone 5b) on Sep 24, 2015 5:00 AM concerning plant:
    Pele tends to sunburn and 'bleach out' in full sun (especially hot afternoon sun), but thrives in dappled shade. If it's given full shade or weak sun (as in cuttings that are overwintered), it will lose its "blood spatter" coloring, but it returns once the plant is placed back in some sun. This is one of the few coleuses that I repeatedly overwinter.

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