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Common names for Coleus include spurflower, flybush, hedgehog flower and hullwort. [citation needed] Coleus are cultivated as ornamental plants, particularly Coleus scutellarioides (syns. Coleus blumei, Plectranthus scutellarioides), which is popular as a garden plant for its brightly colored foliage.
Coleus scutellarioides, commonly known as coleus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae (the mint or deadnettle family), native to southeast Asia through to Australia. Typically growing to 60–75 cm (24–30 in) tall and wide, it is a bushy, woody-based evergreen perennial , widely grown for the highly decorative variegated ...
Paton et al. (2019) list the following species of Coleus (around 300), many transferred from Plectranthus. [1] As of October 2022 [update] , Plants of the World Online listed 301 accepted species. [ 2 ]
Coleus amboinicus is considered to be native to parts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and India, [3] although it is widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in the tropics where it is used as a spice and ornamental plant. [2] Common names in English include Indian borage, country borage, French thyme, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban ...
Coleus neochilus, synonym Plectranthus neochilus, [1] which is colloquially known as lobster bush, fly bush or mosquito bush, is a perennial ground cover with highly fragrant, partially scalloped, ovate leaves and purple blue inflorescent spikes.
Coleus barbatus, also known by the synonyms Plectranthus barbatus and incorrectly Coleus forskalaei (and other spellings of this epithet), is a tropical perennial plant related to the typical coleus species. It is known by the common name woolly plectranthus.