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    Communities > Forums > Plant Identification
    Forum: Plant IdentificationReplies: 7, Views: 100
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    farmer90
    POPLAR BRANCH, NC

    January 29, 2013 4:48 AM

    Post #9400972

    Can you guys please help me in identifying following five plants?

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    sallyg

    sallyg
    Anne Arundel,, MD (Zone 7a)

    January 29, 2013 4:53 AM

    Post #9400976

    2 is a variegated Ginger.
    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 29, 2013 5:04 AM

    Post #9400986

    #1 is copper leaf aka Acalypha.
    ecrane3
    Dublin, CA (Zone 9a)

    January 29, 2013 7:31 AM

    Post #9401159

    To be more specific on #2, it looks like a variegated cultivar of Alpinia zerumbet http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55244/
    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 29, 2013 9:21 AM

    Post #9401270

    Anne, thanks - I just did a google search because I couldn't think of the name and thought I had a match - sorry!

    themoonhowl

    themoonhowl
    Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a)

    January 29, 2013 10:58 AM

    Post #9401349

    1 and 5 could both be Acalyphas

    http://www.floridata.com/ref/a/acal_wil.cfm

    Acalypha Wilkensiana (varieties are musaica, green and red leaves, Macafeana, red, crimson, and bronze leaves, macrophylla, russet-brown leaves, obovata, bronze-green leaves with pink edges, and marginata, pink-edged leaves).


    KayJones
    Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)

    January 29, 2013 1:02 PM

    Post #9401560

    #3 looks like a Clerodendron to me.
    Darwiniensis
    Darwin
    Australia

    January 29, 2013 2:22 PM

    Post #9401645

    #4 is Excoecaria cochinchinensis.

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