Licorice Vine
- Botanical Name
- Helichrysum petiolare
- Hardiness
- Zones 10 to 11, annual elsewhere
- Height
- Up to 2 feet long
- Flowers
- Off-white, not usually seen, grown for foliage
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Space plants 12 inches apart in ground, several per container (fewer with vigorous varieties)
- Problems
- Leaf spots and rust in wet weather and waterlogged soils, holes in leaves (swallowtail butterfly - tolerate damage or move caterpillars)
- Varieties
- Variegatum - grey and cream leaves
- Roundabout - miniature version of Variegatum
- Limelight (Aurea) - lime green leaves
- Icicles - long narrow leaves, more upright
- Silver Mist - small leaves, self branching
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