Description
Lightly marbled leaves below deep, lustrous purple-brown, red, pink and bicoloured flowers. The taxon is a variable one which is still in rapid evolution in its native California. In addition generations of gardeners and botanists have misused and misapplied the name and the internet abounds with misnamed plants and pictures also.
Deeply coloured forms seem to be the most frequently encountered ones in cultivation, (though many plants labelled as chloropetalum in collections and botanic gardens are in fact the related are kurabayashii or, more rarely, angustipetalum)! The species is however very variable with some amazing colour forms known in wild populations (see our San Mateo stock).
This is amongst the best of the west coast USA species for garden use and very vigorous once established.
