Description
Callisia – Phyodina –
There are about 20 species of creeping, spreading, or sub erect, evergreen perennial and rarely annuals, in this genus. They occur from forest margins in Southeastern USA, Mexico, and tropical North and South America. They are grown for their attractive, alternate, succulent leaves. The flowers, borne in paired curled cymes or terminal panicles, are white or pink, with 3 sepals and 3 petals.
Grow in gritty, well drained soil in partial shade.
Prone to a variety of fungal leaf spots.
C. rosea – This upright or climbing succulent found from Virginia to Florida grows 16″ tall and wide. From tufted stems it carries linear to linear-lance shaped, mid green leaves, 2-10″ long. In summer it bears pink flowers, ½-1″ across, in curled cymes to 1 ½” long.
Zones 7-9
