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Pachystachys coccinea
About
The Cardinals guard (Pachystachys coccinea) is a perennial evergreen shrub native to French Guiana, Brazil, and Peru It has ovate to elliptic dark leaves and red flowers on terminal spikes, and can grow to be two to six feet tall, though cultivated plants tend to be shorter.
- Family
- Acanthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pachystachys coccinea
- Slug
- pachystachys-coccinea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Acanthaceae
- Genus
- Pachystachys
- Species
- coccinea
- Wikidata QID
- Q3360157
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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