🌿 Botanical Name
Acalypha wilkesiana
👨‍👩‍👦 Family
Euphorbiaceae.
🗣️ Vernacular Names
Copper leaf, Tamrapathri.
🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
Throughout the year.
🌍 Distribution
Native of Polynesia.
💡 Status
Not Evaluated.

Description: A shrub. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic or ovate, bronzy-green, variously mottled with shades of red and purple. Flowers pinkish, in slender spikes. Pistillate bracts broadly triangular and prominently toothed.

Uses: Grown as garden plant.