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Shrimp plant

Shrimp plant can refer to two plants in Acanthaceae:

  • Justicia brandegeeana, which has salmon-colored bracts and 3 to 7.5 cm long elliptic leaves
  • Pachystachys lutea, which has yellow bracts and 15 cm long lanceolate leaves

Usage examples of "shrimp plant".

I don't think so, but he had described well the flowers - the shrimp plant with its tiny blossoms, and the orchid tree and the ginger lilies, yes, those fierce red lilies with their delicate shivering petals, and the ferns nestled in the deep glades, and the waxen bird-of-paradise and the tall stiff pussy willows, and the tiny yellow-throated blossoms of the trumpet vine.