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Acalypha chamaedrifolia
Also called Bastard Nettle, Chenille Plant
In Singapore: Red Cat's Tail, Bastard Copperleaf, Strawberry Firetail (Cultivated in Singapore)
Bastard Copperleaf is a perennial shrub from southern Florida and the Caribbean, grown for its small, fuzzy, rounded leaves and slender spikes of flowers. It needs warm, humid conditions and steady moisture to do well.
Acalypha chamaedrifolia, the red cat's tail, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to southern Florida and the islands of the Caribbean. It performs best in a loam-less potting mixture. As its synonym Acalypha hispaniolae it gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit in 2002, but this seems to have been rescinded.
Acalypha bipartita · Acalypha ciliata · Golden falsenettle · Red-hot cat's tail · Indian Copperleaf · Acalypha integrifolia · Zambezi Acalypha · Shrubby copperleaf · Acalypha psilostachya · Acalypha villicaulis · Jacob's Coat · Copperleaf
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acalypha chamaedrifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
