Justicia brandegeana bundle or Viticis Fructus

or Viticis Fructus

and the habit is close enough to the old variety 'Croonenburg' that the two may be one and the same

each with five deeply notched petals

a tall screen

Growing this uncommon native also helps keep a remarkable piece of the American forest in cultivation

Justicia brandegeana bundle or Viticis FructusJusticia brandegeana, the shrimp plant, is a subtropical evergreen shrub from Mexico, grown the world over for the curious, shrimp like flower spikes that give the plant its name: arching, overlapping bracts in warm coppery orange, salmon, and rust, from which small white flowers peek like a shrimp's legs. The bracts hold their color for weeks, so a well grown plant seems always in bloom. Blooming is the point, and the shrimp plant blooms without