Hortica: Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora and Exotic Plants Indoors: Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora and Exotic Plants Indoors

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Flowers: Diurnal, scentless typically white with a yellow throat but occasionally plants with a white throat can be found. Light or dark purple flowers are also known either as discrete populations or mixed in with whites. Calyx-tube membranous, 6mm long, greenish to brown, with 4-5 brown sepals; corolla-tube to 15mm long, narrow, whitish to pink or golden petals 25-40 in 2-4 series, white becoming "saturated" rose above or concolorous pure white or pink, Stuart Max Walters “The European Garden Flora: Dicotyledons” (Part I) Cambridge University Press, 1989 In the RYB color wheel, the secondary colors are purple (red mixed with blue), orange (red mixed with yellow), and green (yellow mixed with blue).

Alfred Byrd Graf “Hortica: a color cyclopedia of garden flora in all climates and indoor plants” Roehrs Co., 1992 Persian Green. This is only another name for emerald green, the vivid and somewhat staring hue being sometimes employed in oriental decorations and being then termed Persian green.Brass Yellow. This may be obtained by mixing forty parts of white lead, twelve parts of light chrome yellow, one part raw umber, and one part burnt umber. Or a mixture of French ochre and medium chrome yellow, added to a little umber, with a touch of blue, may be used to tint white as a base.

Hardiness: The plant dislikes hard frosts (USDA hardiness zones 10-11), but if grown under a canopy of trees, will usually be well protected from lighter frosts. Bronze Yellow. Mix together five parts of medium chrome yellow, three parts of white lead, and one part of raw umber. A mixture preferred by some painters is obtained from chrome yellow, French ochre and a little burnt umber. Propagation: Stem cutting, division of larger clumps. New plants may be started from cuttings taken in the spring and rooted in light sandy soil or by potting up offsets. It is also possible to start plants from seed by crumbling an old blossom cluster and placing it on the soil. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Cat. Vasc. Pl. Ecuador, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Miss. Bot. Gard. 75: i–viii, 1–1181. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.Description: Tradescantia spathaceaSN|25968]]SN|25968]] is a rather succulent small and low-growing plant, with rosettes of waxy lance-shaped leaves metallic green above, with glossy purple underneath. This plant is also known as Rhoeo discolorSN|25969]]SN|25971]] and more frequently in the horticulture trade as Rhoeo spathaceaSN|25971]]SN|25969]]. The species name is a Latin word referring to the spathe-like large bracts which envelope the flower. It is a very attractive foliage plants. Widely cultivated: a variant with wholly green leaves is 'Concolor' and another with red and pale yellow-green yellow is 'vittata'. Vermilion. This bright red cannot be imitated by an admixture of ordinary pigments, but there are many excellent substitutes on the market, most of them being vermilionettes. Remarks: This plant should not be confused with genuine Plectranthus coleoidesSN|29700]]SN|29692]] Bentham, a different specie native to India that is not generally cultivated. The erroneous use of the name “coleoides” has caused much confusion among plant fanciers and growers about this species than about any other Plectranthus species. Implement Blue. This is made simply by mixing ultramarine with white. Barytes and zinc mixed are frequently used for the white, as lead cannot be employed in the presence of ultramarine. Cobalt. This color is one of the best artist's colors, and cannot be successfully imitated. It is a beautiful and most useful color, but unfortunately it is expensive, and it is therefore used only in the finest work.

French Ochre. This color, of course, is sold ready made, and it must be observed that, in addition to the fineness, the particular tone of this color is very important, especially to grainers. A HTML color code is an identifier used to represent a color on the web and within other digital assets. Common color codes are in the forms of: Sienna Brown. The color is variously called sienna brown, teak brown, and other names. It is made by mixing burnt Italian sienna and French ochre with pure zinc. Van Jaarsveld, E., Van Wyk, B-E. & Smith, G. “Succulents of South Africa.” Tafelberg, Cape Town. 2000Flowers: Flowers numerous between the pairs of boat shaped bracts, scarcely projecting. 10-15(-20) mm in diameter. Tepals 3 white (or pinkish), elliptic. Petals 3, white. Stamens 6 with white filaments and yellow anthers. Sepals, petals and stamens free and approximatively equal. Ovary 3-celled with a single ovule per cell. Flower-stalks approx 15 mm long, recurved. Leaves: Sessile, dagger-shaped to strap-shaped, acuminate, scarcely narrowed above the sheath, somewhat fleshy, spirally arranged in stiff, upright rosettes, usually dark to metallic green above, with glossy purple or vivid violet underneath, 20-35 cm long by 3.5-5.5(-7.5) cm wide, hairless. The hexadecimal color code #373a3a is a dark shade of cyan. In the RGB color model #373a3a is comprised of 21.57% red, 22.75% green and 22.75% blue. In the HSL color space #373a3a has a hue of 180° (degrees), 3% saturation and 22% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 491.41 nm. This color is used in the Roy Lichtenstein: Painting with Statue of Liberty picture.

Opera Pink. Tint white lead with a mixture of five parts of vermilion and one part of medium chrome green.Crassula tetragona subs. lignescens Toelken : has erect, wiry, woody branches up to 800 mm tall, very short leaf sheaths and 0-1 pairs of sterile bracts on the peduncle. Distribution: Montagu to Grahamstown and also in Namaqualand. Bremen Blue. This is a color to be bought only ready made. It is not much used, and is not suitable for an oil color. Scott-Shaw, C.R. "Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions." KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg. 1999 Inflorescence (cyme) Terminal, flat-topped with flowers densely clustered, peduncle 10-150 mm long, with 1-3 pairs of sterile bracts.