coleus
plectranthus scutellarioides latin

While thinking about a variety of ways to handle the situation, coleus came to mind.

Is that how you explain the return of the dreaded coleus?

The coleus success started a whole new game plan.

John Coleus had a minor medical condition that required surgery.

He and his staff have obviously been bitten by the coleus bug.

You can plant an annual that does well in partial or full shade, like Coleus.

So Coleus visited bars and drank beer with his friends.

"Coleus" may therefore be treated as a common name.

"Doing something" meant amassing a collection of 125 coleus varieties.

The coleus world, too, is full of colorful characters.

Another thin-leaved sort that promptly shows water stress is coleus.

Coleus are mintlike plants that have the family tendency to spread.

Everyone knows that coleus cuttings root nearly overnight in a glass of water.

But some plants, like begonias and coleus, do not go dormant.

But now coleus are teetering on the cutting edge.

Mr. Wierdsma said he is certain coleus's time has come.

Everyone at the Institute thought John Coleus was going to die.

John Coleus certainly caught the virus when he cut himself with a bloody scalpel, no question about that.

Violets, ivy, coleus and geraniums are good ones to start with.

Some other coleus species have been placed in Plectranthus.

Another group of coleus has been placed in the related genus Plectranthus.

When the coleus leaves were full-grown they would be the size of handkerchiefs or even larger.

On the front step is a bright-hued coleus, a standard welcome-to-the-neighborhood gift.

One of the most unusual specimens is an oak leaf coleus trained into a tree form.

They were gaudy relics from Grandmother's generation: you couldn't give a coleus away.