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Coral plant is a multi-branched subshrub with slender, rushlike stems that are angled with ridges and leaves that are reduced to little more than small scales. The wiry branches start out erect then fall over to cascade down in lengths as long as 4 ft (1.2 m). From spring until fall outdoors and all year long indoors, coral plant produces hanging clusters of scarlet tubular flowers about 1 in (2.5 cm) long that look like little firecrackers inspiring the plant's other common name, firecracker plant.
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Coral plant is often grown in hanging baskets. It does well on the patio or indoors in front of a window. Outdoors, let coral plant spill over a wall or raised bed. Stems can be tied to a trellis or wall.
Features Another tender perennial, Cuphea ignea, is also sometimes called firecracker plant as well as cigar plant. It too is a fine butterfly and hummingbird plant and looks great planted with this firecracker plant. Steve Christman 11/20/99; updated 10/23/03, 7/17/04
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