| To survey the species and application of colored-leaf plants in Guangzhou urban green spaces, 214 sites from Guangzhou urban green spaces including urban parks, public squares, roads and residential areas were choosen. The results showed that abundant colored-leaf plants were found in all sites with 49 families, 76 genera, and 90 species, in which 14 species belonged to ever-colored-leaf plants, 30 species belonged to spot-colored-leaf plants, 6 species belonged to double-colored-leaf plants and each 20 species belonged to new and old leaf colored-leaf plants. The colored-leaf
plants were attached great importance in Guangzhou urban green spaces, where 6-10 species colored-leaf plants were
observed in 102 sites and more than 15 species colored-leaf plants were observed in 14 sites. Few ever-colored-leaf, spotcolored-leaf, and Double-colored-leaf plants with high ornamental value were found in secondary forest and ecological
landscape forest, however, they were abundant in landscape communities, public squares, roads and residential areas.
Ever-colored-leaf, Spot-colored-leaf, and double-colored-leaf arbors were lacked in Guangzhou urban green spaces, so
the introduction, exploitation and utilization of these colored-leaf arbors and native colored-leaf plants should be applied in future. |
