Pachystachys lutea

Pachystachys lutea, known as the golden shrimp plant or lollipop plant, is a tropical, soft-stemmed evergreen shrub between 0.5 and 2.5 meters tall, native to Peru.[1][2] The zygomorphic, long-throated, short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that are produced throughout the warm months.[1]

Pachystachys lutea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Pachystachys
Species:
P. lutea
Binomial name
Pachystachys lutea

The Latin specific epithet lutea means “yellow”.[3]

It is cultivated as an ornamental, but in cold temperate regions it requires protection from temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F).[4] It has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[4][5]

  • Close up of the bracts
    Close up of the bracts
  • Flowers emerging from the bract
    Flowers emerging from the bract

References
  1. Edward F. Gilman; Alan Meerow (October 1999). "Pachystachys lutea" (PDF). Hort.ifas.ufl.edu. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  2. Wasshausen, D. C. (1986). "The systematics of the genus Pachystachys (Acanthaceae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99 (1): 160–185.
  3. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.
  4. "RHS Plantfinder - Pachystachys lutea". Rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  5. "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 71. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
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