Bertolonia is a genus consisting of 14 species of pretty, dwarf, creeping, tender perennials, native to tropical South America. These herbacous plants are grown for their colorful, velvety, ornamental foliages, vary from shimmery white with purple, pink with purple, or bronze-green with carmine and lighter midribs, purple beneath. Leaves are coarsely hairy, oval 7cm (3in) long on short stalks. The plants bear clusters of small, bell-shaped flowers repeatedly, just above the leaves, color in pink, red, yellow to purple.

Species

• Bertolonia argyrea
• Bertolonia guttata
• Bertolonia houttea
• Bertolonia maculata
• Bertolonia marmorata (Jewel Plant)
• Bertolonia mosenii
• Bertolonia sp iporanga
• Bertolonia venezuelensis
• Bertolonia wentii