Talk:Coleus

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I think it would be worth adding the new discovery that Coleus plant juice may encourage human skin to produce melanin. An experiment has been done, apparently in Ottawa, on mice. Mice who regularly had a lotion containing Coleus plant juice produced melanin and were significantly less susceptible to cancer. Check out the article at [1]

Looks promising, but don't know how encyclopedic.

Wrong plant in upper right photo on Coleus page ~ The pink/purple/cream/green plant in the upper right photo is Perilla 'Magilla'. I know this for a fact since I grow both plants and Perilla is commonly mistaken for a Coleus cultivar. I don't have an account on Wikipedia to edit entries and don't want to start doing that (actually, I'd love to, but I know I'd get hooked and already have PLENTY of irons in the fire), or I'd have done it myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.105.191.14 (talk • contribs)

I took the photo at a botanical gardens, but I can't remember if they were labeled, so I probably misidentified them myself. I'm growing quite a few coleus at the moment, I should be able to take another photo of what are definitely coleus cultivars (my plants are immature, so I might need to wait a few weeks before they're suitable for an infobox photo). --Pharaoh Hound (talk) (The Game) 15:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)