Coleus

The birth flowers for October 11 are Coleus (scientific name: Coleus) and Miso-hagi (Purple Loosestrife, scientific name: Lythrum anceps)

🍃 Coleus: “Which One Is the Real Me?”

In the morning light,
Aqua found leaves in a variety of colors.

Red.
Green.
Brown.
Purple.
Leaves with only the edges a different color.
Leaves with color spreading from the center.

💧“...It’s quite a lively sight, isn’t it?”
🍃“Is it?”
💧“Hey, Coleus.”
🍃“What?”
💧“Which one is the real Coleus?”
🍃“All of them.”
💧“...All of them?”
🍃“Yeah.”

Aqua hopped from leaf to leaf.

💧 “But this leaf and this one… they’re totally different.”
🍃 “They are, aren’t they?”
💧 “So which one is more like a Coleus?”
🍃 “Both of them.”
💧 “Don’t you have to pick just one?”
🍃 “Why do I have to choose?”
💧“Well… because… it’s easier to understand that way.”

The coleus leaves
swayed in the wind and overlapped.

Red, green, brown, and purple—
not a single one was exactly the same.

🍃“To make it easier to understand,
are you going to say that one of them isn’t me?”
💧“………….”

After a moment, Aqua said,

💧“You’re pretty greedy, aren’t you?”
🍃“Am I?”
💧“You want to be all of them, don’t you?”
🍃“Yeah.”
💧“……That’s nice.”
🍃“What about you?”
💧“Huh?”

🍃“Are you always the same water droplet?”
💧“………….”

A breeze blew.

Aqua rolled over on the leaf.

💧“Today, I’m this shape.”
🍃“Isn’t that fine?”

I don’t have to settle on just one.
The different me, the changing me—
they’re all inside me.

Plop. 💧

Corius (scientific name: Coleus) is native to Malaysia and is a non-cold-resistant annual grass of the family Lamiaceae. It is a foliage plant with leaf color and pattern colorful and varied, the viewing period is long from spring to late autumn. In the summer, blue small flowers similar to Shiso(Perilla frutescens var. crispa) flowers bloom. There are many gardening cultivars, most of them are Coleus blumei, but some varieties are Colieus Pumilus which are small in size and distorted in stems. The genus "Coleus" is Latin, meaning "sheath".

Common name: Coleus, scientific name: Coleus, aka: kinran ziso , nishiki ziso, coleus, Painted nettle, Place of Origin : 20 to 80 cm leaves ornamental period: April to November, leaf color: yellow spotted in green · green · variegated in white · variegated in red · violet · purple brown, leaf shape: Fruits similar to perilla · Frill · Notch Flower color: light purple, flowering period: June to August.

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