Life at Kaligátan Farm, a country house-in-progress in a coffee farm in the Malaráyat foothills.
The panorama on the sunrise side: an awesome view of Malarayat
The quiet panorama on the sunrise side of the farm: an awesome view of Mount Malaráyat and the river below the gap.
20 March 2012
Chenille Plant
Although I have written at length about Acalyphas just yesterday, I purposely withheld one variety which I feel should be singled out, if only for its sheer outlandishness: it has plain looking leaves unlike its other cousins but makes it up by producing bizarre, tail-like inflorescences (in vivid red, at that) that hang from its branches! Some authoritative references call it the Chenille plant (Acalypha hispida, French for caterpillar, but actually alludes to chenille fabric) though I also have come across the common name Cat's Tail Acalypha. Either way, it cannot be helped that it be noticed in any garden where they produce the red thingy practically all year round.
Hi Groovy, I think you are referring to the Cockscomb Flower which is quite different from this. But this Chenille plant has to get half a day's sun, at the least, to stay healthy and flower.
Is this plant related to that "palong ng manok" with the red fan-like flower? Does it grow in the shade and blooms so red and beautiful?
ReplyDeleteHi Groovy, I think you are referring to the Cockscomb Flower which is quite different from this. But this Chenille plant has to get half a day's sun, at the least, to stay healthy and flower.
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