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Nursery Direct
Copperleaf
Acalypha wilkesiana
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Copperleaf - Acalypha wilkesiana
Copperleaf is planted for its leaves, not its flowers. The large, mottled foliage of Acalypha wilkesiana, in copper, bronze, red and pink, carries colour with an intensity few flowering shrubs can match, and in a frost-free garden it holds that colour year-round. It is a staple of tropical and coastal gardens across Australia's warmer districts.
Why Copperleaf
Foliage Intensity: Each leaf is splashed and edged in its own mix of tones, so a single plant provides continuous visual weight without relying on seasonal flowering.
Rapid Establishment: Fast-growing and dense, it gains screening height quickly through the warm months, valuable in new gardens that need colour and cover soon.
Climate Fit: Thrives in the heat and humidity of tropical, subtropical and coastal gardens and colours best where winters stay mild; it is frost tender and sheds leaves in a cold snap.
Steady Moisture: Performs best with regular summer water, which keeps it furnished with leaf down to the base.
Responsive to Pruning: Shapes cleanly and responds well to regular maintenance cuts, producing fresh, vivid growth and maintaining a defined form.
Ideal Applications
Privacy Screening: In South East Queensland its dense growth and rapid height gain make it an effective coloured screen or informal hedge; in Sydney, where it thins over winter, use it as a coloured layer in front of a hardier screen.
Tropical Accent Planting: Used as a bold specimen or massed planting in resort-style and high-end residential landscapes.
Courtyard and Contained Planting: Performs well in large containers on hard-landscaped terraces, podium gardens and architectural courtyards.
Coastal Projects: Handles the heat, humidity and sea air of coastal and estuarine sites set back from direct salt spray, where many ornamental shrubs underperform.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1 to 1.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early summer
Soil & Drainage: Well-drained, fertile soil; copes with sand or clay loam but dislikes waterlogging
Establishment Care: Water regularly through the first growing season to build a strong root system, and keep up deep watering in dry summer spells once established. Apply a balanced slow-release fertiliser in spring and keep a deep layer of mulch over the root zone through summer. The sap of this euphorbia-family shrub irritates sensitive skin, so prune in gloves and long sleeves.
Plant Details
Height: 2 to 3m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Native to: South Pacific islands, including Fiji and Vanuatu
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







