Pycnostachys urticifolia   CAG00907

2m
80cm
Su - Au
H
Sun - L. Sh.

$12.00 CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

A curious and highly desirable plant better suited to the tropics but worth growing at least once. Conical flower spikes wear an electric blue girdle of lipped, tubular flowers and develop into attractive seedheads crowded with soft rosy spines. Quick and shrubby of growth with toothed, broadly lanced shaped, soft green, slightly felty leaves.
From tropical east Africa, moisture loving and intolerant of much dry heat or the slightest frost, a short lived perennial for a sheltered site, where it can reach 2m or more or else a temperamental, albeit self seeding, annual.