Pachystachys lutea is also known as yellow shrimp flower, yellow shrimp flower, golden brill shrimp. It is an evergreen shrub in the family Bedaceae that can reach a height of up to 2 m. The stem is cylindrical, inconspicuously ridged, glabrous, and yellowish-brown. The leaves are papery, oblong, bright green, and the leaf surface is wrinkled and shiny. Spike-like inflorescences apical, 5 cm to 9 cm long, opening upwards from the base of the inflorescence; The bracts are heart-shaped, golden-yellow, tile-like arrangement, and can be maintained for 2 to 3 months; The bracts are yellow, ovate and oval; The corolla is white , about 5 cm long , pubescent and glandular , the corolla tube is two-thirds the length of the corolla , and the eaves are bilabial. The capsule is oval in shape and bears 4 seeds. The flowering period is from April to August and the fruit period is from July to November each year.
The golden bract has bright yellow bracts layered on top of each other, and the white corolla sticking out of it is its real flower. Looking at the golden bud flowers from afar, like a standing golden pagoda, and up close like a living shrimp jumping, so it is also named "yellow shrimp flower".
Golden bract flowers are also known as "yellow shrimp flowers".
Native to Peru in South America, it often attracts local hummingbirds for pollination. Although the flowers can bloom as many bracts as there are, the flowers of the golden bracts do not bloom all at once, but bloom one after another from the bottom up. In order to extend the flowering period, it has always maintained its appeal to pollinating media.
The flowers of the golden bract do not bloom all at once, but one after the other from the bottom up.
