PlantFiles: White-Edged Swedish Ivy, Tropical Mint, Candlestick Vine, Ornamental Coleus
Plectranthus coleoides 'Marginatus'

I received a small cutting of this plant in a trade a year ago and it rooted quickly and has grown and spread to make a nice full hanging basket. A very easy plant with interesting foliage.

I obtained this plant as a tiny cutting about 2 years ago. It grows like crazy and it is easy to over winter in a bright window.
I noted that if the plant is allowed to become pot bound and pruned from time to time it will be more upright and the leaves will be smaller. Has a less vulgar look when allowed to do so and maintains all it's other characteristics forming a tight mound of eye catching patterned foliage.
For a neat party decoration put it under a black light for a real cool look!
It can get mite infestation and it is hard to deal with if that happens. The leaves will start dropping. If so it's best to take a clean cutting and start over.
Easy for the black thumbed to grow.

i purchases a small accent plant in the spring of 2003 in my zone 5. it filled the pot and cascaded so beautifully that i brought the whole pot in and left it in an east window all winter. Put it back outside in the spring and it's more beautiful than ever. I have taken some cutting and am rooting them in water to start another. There is no white on my leaves, only a heavily veined green top with a beautiful purple underleaf.

This is a variegated White-Edged Swedish Ivy commonly seen in hanging baskets. It has a small 1-2" leaf, has a trailing habit. This is NOT the same as Plectranthus forsteri 'Marginatus' which is an upright small shrub with 6-8" leaves having similar leaf variegation.