| Scientific Name: | Pachystachys lutea |
| Common Name: | golden shrimp plant, lollipop plant |
| Family Name: | Acanthaceae |
| Origin: | South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Crenate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, Yellow, Apr-May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves dark green, elliptic-oblanceolate, most 10-15(-20)cm long x 3-6(-8)cm wide; flowers white but partially covered by and protrude from showy, overlapping golden yellow bracts that somewhat resemble the overlapping scales on a 4-sided inflorescence (reminiscent of a shrimp). | |