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| Calathea roseopicta 'Medallion' and coleus Kong |
I would like to take a lot of credit for this attractive combination, but the credit goes to the protean fecundity of that mother of invention, necessity. I had bought the
Calathea on impulse and needed a place for it. It would look great in the house but almost surely die quickly. A shady place outside seemed like a good idea, but exactly which shady place? So I decided to put it out on the deck, and noticing the free space between the two coleus, popped it into that space. Then I took a second look and realized "Wow, that really works!"
The
Calathea came unlabeled, but a quick search of Google images led me to the name used above.
Nomenclature note: most of the plants once known as
Coleus ,
after banishment to
Solenostemon in the late twentieth century, are now placed in
Plectranthus. A half century ago Ernst Mayr provided a very plausible species concept. But no one has ever done the same for genera, and I gave up "believing" in genera decades ago. I treat them as opinions, some well-founded, some not so much so.
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