Golden shrimp plant
Pachystachys lutea Nees
- light
- Part sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 76 cm
Acanthaceae
Also called Lollipop Plant, Lollipop-plant
Formerly Pachystachys albiflora
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Peru to N. BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 金苞花, 黃蝦花, 黃鴨咀花
- Spanish
- Camarón amarillo, choclo de oro
- Portuguese
- Camarão-amarelo
- Czech
- tlustoklasec žlutý
- Indonesian
- Bunga Lilin
- French
- Panache d'officier
- Russian
- Пахистахис жёлтый
- Thai
- เหลืองคีรีบูน
- Swedish
- guldax
- Danish
- guldtop
- Chinese (China)
- 金苞花
- German
- Gelbe Dickähre
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pachystachys lutea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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