#painted nettle

[toyastales]

Coleus (Painted Nettle).

Deep purple leaves with pink veins and creamy edges.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 4 November 2025

This container was still packed with colour from the foliage of what might have been the cultivar Coleus scutellarioides ‘Wizard Scarlet’ (coleus, painted nettle, Chinese basil). This tender, evergreen perennial can be grown from seed or easily raised from softwood cuttings.

Jill Raggett

[crippled-peeper]

Velvet red coleus

Coleus scutellarioides

[helluvatimes]

Flowering Nettles

Painted Nettle (Plectranthus scutellarioides) flowering in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was taken two years back in a quieter spot of the Gardens by the Bay. We might’ve probably missed it but we didn’t see them when we visited the same spot recently.

[muttball]

Glory of Luxembourg

[amateurplant]

Plectranthus scutellarioides (or coleus).

[whirlingmost44]

I’m propagating some coleus’ , trying to get a collection of them going on now . Can’t wait to see how many different kinds of these bad girls I can grow !

August 21st, 2019

[helluvatimes]

A Painter’s Nettles

Painted Nettle (Plectranthus [formerly Solenostemon] scutellarioides) decorating a quieter part of the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.