Celosia argentea is an annual Amarantacea, up to 30 cm tall. From May to December it produces beautiful velvety spike inflorescences. Regardless of origin from Central America and Asia, this annual it lives very well in pots.

CARE

Choose for her a bright shaded area or even half sun but not in the central hours in summer, when it should be shaded or moved to the shade. Her temperature ideal is in fact between 20 and 28 ° C and suffers much over 40 ° C, then exhausts the cycle with temperatures below 10 ° C. On very hot days, spray the leaves to increase the humidity around her. It tolerates the wind, but not the brackish one and the land it must be based on peat and sand in equal parts, always very well drained. Wet Celosia in moderation but regularly throughout the hot season and fertilize it every 15 days with liquid fertilizer for flowering plants in the irrigation water.

Eliminate dry parts after withering to stimulate the birth of another stem that will prolong flowering.

CURIOSITY'

Its name derives from the Greek Keleos “fiery, flaming” due to the color of its inflorescences which remains alive for a long time even when they are dried.