usda hardiness zone 15

Dramatically filled with long, drooping catkins of velvety red flowers during the warm months, chenille plant is one of the tropical world's prettiest plants. It is a heat-loving broadleaf evergreen shrub native to Malaysia and New Guinea. It is grown for its pendulous fluffy red flowers that look much like fuzzy caterpillars. Interestingly, the French word for caterpillar is "chenille", the reason for its common name. Plants are dioecious - either male or female in gender, and only the showier-blooming...

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

Dwarf copperplant is an evergreen shrub with irregular, narrow, pendulous leaves in reddish bronze shades with pink or magenta margins. In cold climates it is often grown as an annual.

This plant prefers moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade. Grow it as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant.

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

Louisiana Red copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropical Pacific islands of Melanesia and has large, mottled bronze and red oval leaves and long, copper-green flowers. In cold climates it is often grown as an annual.

Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a large specimen plant.

Copperplant is an evergreen shrub native to the tropics and has large, oval leaves in various showy color combinations and inconspicuous long, copper-green flowers. In cooler climates it is often grown as an annual, container plant or houseplant but in frost-free locations it can be used in a mixed hedge, shrub border or as a specimen plant. Plants prefer moist, humid conditions in full sun to partial shade.

The leaves occur in pairs along the often red-tan branches. Colored medium to dark green above, and with a lighter gray-green underside, each leaf is an elongated oval with a tapering tip. At the base of the leaves small rounded clusters of white flowers appear. The tiny fruits turn a bright reddish purple at first, eventually becoming black with ripe and dry. Both wind and birds will spread the seeds.