Cigar plant

Cigar Plant
Botanical Name: Cuphea ignea
Cigar plant features tubular, orange-red flowers rimmed with white and purple, giving the flowers the look of a burning cigar with ashes at the tip.

Cigar Plants or Waxweeds are annuals to perennials native from North to South America. Several species make upright stalks with utmost showy, bright colored, sometimes bicolored flowers with sometimes large upper petals.

Giant Cigar Plant
Cuphea melvillea
1" yellow, orange, and red blooms are borne along the reddish stems. A favorite of butterflies and hummingbirds. Prune plants to encourage a strong woody base that stands up to strong winds.

Cigar Plant
Description
We believe Cuphea ignea 'David Verity' to be one of the best Cigar Plants. 'David Verity' blooms prolifically all spring and summer, with beautiful orange 1" tubular flowers that resemble cigars.

Plant of the Week
Firecracker Plant, Cigar Plant
Latin: Cuphea ignea
Firecracker flowers help us celebrate the holiday and the beginning of summer.

Cigar Plant
Cuphea ignea
1 to 2'
2'
Sun; prefers well-drained, fertile soil; moderate drought tolerance; good heat tolerance.

Cigar plant is a fast grower and requires little attention. But it will command your attention as party place for all manner of butterflies and hummingbirds.

Tall Cigar Plant [English]: Cuphea micropetala
Tall Cinquefoil [English]: Potentilla arguta
Tall Coastal Plantain [English]: Plantago subnuda
Tall Coneflower [English]: Echinacea pallida
Tall Coneflower [English]: Rudbeckia grandiflora ...

Cigar plant, cigar flower (Cuphea ignea)
Cineraria (Senecio x hybridus)
Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum)
Cinquefoil (Potentilla species)
Claret cup cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus)
Clary sage, scarlet sage (Salvia sclarea, Salvia splendens) ...

Cuphea micropetala (Cigar Plant)
Dahlia sp. and hybrids (Dahlia)
Dianthus sp. and cultivars (Pinks)
Dicentra eximia and hybrids (Bleeding Heart)
Dicliptera suberecta (Hummingbird Plant)
Digitalis sp. and hybrids (Foxglove)
Echinacea sp.

Cigar Plant (Cuphea ignea)
Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)
Cilician Fir (Abies cilicica)
Cimicifuga simplex ramosa
Cineraria x hybrida (Pericallis x hybrida)
Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
Cinnamonum camphora ...

Cuphea micropetala
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Hardiness Zones:
1 ...

Cuphea llavea, Cuphea barbigera
Family: Lythraceae
Cigar Plant, Bat Head, Bat Face, St Peter Plant ...

to dress up the dinner table.
Place container specimens with other heat-loving flowering plants such as
bougainvillea, coral vine, purslane, Cuphea (Mexican heather and cigar plant),
and Mandevilla.

See also: Cuphea, Green, Orange, May, Hyssop