What Is a Lollipop Plant?
The lollipop plant, or Acanthaceae Pachystachys lutea, is an evergreen tropical shrub. It is native to Central America and parts of Peru, and gardeners in tropical and subtropical gardens usually raise it as a perennial garden specimen. In other regions, it typically is an annual plant, raised in containers, or kept as an indoor houseplant. It is a mound-shaped plant that generally grows from three feet to five feet (about one to one and a half m) wide and tall. Often people call it the golden or yellow shrimp plant because the bright yellow bracts of the flower stalk resemble yellow shrimp.
