| Scientific Name: | Acalypha hispida |
| Common Name: | chenille plant |
| Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Red, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Upright shrub 1-3m tall; stems lined with fine hairs; leaves ovate, most 10-14cm long x 7-10cm wide, dark green, margins toothed, petioles 4-8cm long; spikes axillary, pendulous, red, fuzzy,15-30(-50)cm long with hundreds of tiny florets. | |