Shrimp plant
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Shrimp plant can refer to two plants in Acanthaceae
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Acanthaceae
The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species....
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- Justicia brandegeeanaJusticia brandegeeanaJusticia brandegeeana is an evergreen perennial shrub in the genus Justicia, native to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras....
, which has salmon-colored bracts and 3 to 7.5 cm long elliptic leaves - Pachystachys luteaPachystachys luteaPachystachys lutea, known by the common names Lollipop Plant and Golden Shrimp Plant, is a subtropical, soft-stemmed evergreen shrub between 36 and 48 inches tall. The zygomorphic, long-throated, short-lived white flowers emerge sequentially from overlapping bright yellow bracts on racemes that...
, which has yellow bracts and 15 cm long lanceolate leaves