The Application of Xiamen Colorful Plant & Investigation of Landscape Plants Species

The colorful plant is a very important component of the landscape plants.It integrates static landscape plants with dynamic landscape plants,enriches city color,and becomes a necessity for modern landscape greening.It can be seen that colorful plant has a broad applicative prospect for beautifying city.The investigation show that the colorful plants can be classified 6 categories,i.e.single color leaf,double-color leaf,spotted leaf,mosaic leaf,colorful vein,and colorful edge.Shrub and perennial herbage are major species and have a proportion of 45% and 35%,respectively.Both sub-arbor and liana are 10%.The major plant species belong to Euphorbiaceae,Moraceae,Araliaceae,Magueyeae,Commelinaceae,and Amaranthaceae.Also,some suggestions concerning the landscape plants species and application in Xiamen city are put forward in this paper.