Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Summer 2013 Part 3, 0 by typwc

typwc wrote:
Gita, Here's my acalypha as you requested. These guys get full sun all day long. Pic #1 is the one I cut back and its new growth. #2, 3 were the plants that were not cut back. #4 shows the male and female flowers. #5 Compare the plant that was cut back to its unshorn neighbors.

My camera battery died right before I could take a pic of my cutting. It has pretty little white roots and little pink nubs where new growth will come. I treated it exactly as a coleus cutting, and this thing rooted just as quickly but it has taken longer to put out new growth than a coleus.

The impression I'm getting is that it's not really possible to capture the true beauty of the leaves on this plant in pictures. You really have to see how they glow in the sun to appreciate them. It's interesting to note that the leaves that are in the shadow of other leaves are greener, so maybe a plant in part shade would be more green.