Copperleaf
ఎకలైఫా విల్కెసియానాകോപ്പർ ലീഫ്
Acalypha wilkesiana Müll.Arg.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Euphorbiaceae
Also called Painted Copperleaf, Redleaf
Formerly Acalypha chantrieri, Acalypha compacta, Acalypha godseffiana, Acalypha hamiltoniana, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bismarck Arch. to SW. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS full, part; NC State Extension full
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.2 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 3–4 ft
- Spread
- 97 cm to 1.2 mRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 1–1.5 m; NC State Extension 3–3 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- GreenRead from RHS and NC State Extension, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS brown, green; NC State Extension green, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- 4.5 °C (USDA zone 11a)Read from RHS and NC State Extension, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 10 °C; NC State Extension -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 威氏鐵莧, 红桑, 铁苋
- Spanish
- Chirrite, Carlota, Acalifa roja
- Russian
- Акалифа Уилкса
- Korean
- 호프만니이
- Czech
- palnice Wilkesova
- Japanese
- アカリファ
- Chinese (China)
- 红桑
- Thai
- หูปลาช่อน
- Danish
- kobberblad
- Swedish
- mosaikblad
- Dutch
- Jacob's mantel
- Finnish
- kirjokissanhäntä
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Acalypha wilkesiana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.