While most plants that are called " shrimp plant " are in the Justicia family , there are some with this common name that are in other plant life home . Not all peewee plants can be develop in the same zona or in the same conditions , but even the tropicals can be rise as annuals if hand the correct environment . Most shrimp plants can be grow as houseplants .

Red Shrimp Plant

aboriginal to Mexico , crimson peewee works ( Justicia brandageana ) is what most the great unwashed consider a shrimp plant . The red shrimp plant has weak , twiglike , branching stems and grows from 3 to 5 feet in height . Flowers are actually spikes of bracts that can range from rusting colored to dark red . It is audacious in USDA zones 8 to 11 and can be killed to the background during a hard freeze , but it usually recovers . cerise peewee flora is easily start from cuttings .

Several varieties of this plant have been develop through cross , including " Nervosa , " " Aurea , " " Fruit Cocktail , " " pinkish , " " Variegata , " " Yellow Queen " and " Mutant . " As of 2010 , most of these intercrossed varieties are not readily uncommitted in garden centers , and usually must be ordered .

White Shrimp Plant

White shrimp plant ( Justicia betonica ) is a bushy bush with more upright bract than its more common cousin , reddened runt plant . The flush are white with green netting and swooning green farewell .

This tincture - loving flora grows to 3 fundament and can become quite bushy . It is a prolific bloomer , which blooms best when save moist . It is hardy in USDA zone 9 to 11 .

Golden Shrimp Plant

fortunate shrimp plant ( Pachystachys lutea ) is tropical and is stalwart in USDA zone 9b to 11 . It thrives in part subtlety and is adaptable to acidic or somewhat alkaline clay , arenaceous or loam grunge .

Golden prawn plant has 6 - column inch - foresighted dark green leave and can grow to 3 to 4 foot in height . The flush , which get above the plant , is an upright spike of bright sensationalistic bract with pure white prime emerge from each .

Purple Shrimp Plant

Purple runt works ( Justicia scheidweileri ) is also called rose pinecone and Brazilian pyrotechnic . Its tenacious light-green leaves with silver vein are almost as showy as the flower spike . The bracts of the purple shrimp works are red , with emerge empurpled flowers .

Purple shrimp plant grows best in spook and can be acquire as a houseplant , but is only hardy in USDA zone 10 to 11 .

Blue Shrimp Plant

Also known as blue wax flower or honeywort , the downhearted shrimp plant ( Cerinthe major purparescens ) is native to the Mediterranean . It is the only shrimp flora that is an annual in its native home ground . The compact 2 foot by 2 foot works blooms from springiness through fall with 1 - column inch blue flower that are attractive to bee .

Being an one-year , it produces seeds that can be replanted in the bound .

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