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Cardinal's Guard
Cardinal's guard (Pachystachys spicata) a member of the Acanthaceae family, is native to South America and the greater Caribbean. This ornamental tropical plant bears large clusters of brilliant red flowers along an erect terminal spike with overlapping green leaf-like bracts. The flower clusters are composed of 2-inch tubes with two central lobes at right angles and two protruding stamens. Its dark green, glossy, oval leaves have prominent veins and grow to 12 inches. The shrub will reach 6 feet in height and grows best in a sunny location in fertile, sandy, loamy, well-drained, moderately moist soil, where hummingbirds love to feed at its tubular blossoms. The name was validly published by Hip籀lito Ruiz L籀pez and Jos矇 Antonio Pavon, but it was not until 1986 that Dieter Carl Wasshausen reclassified it into today's valid botanical systematics.
黺篣國祭 貐渥澎 賱謔禺 木欠木 欠潰僑 鴠篥禺收諤黕窸潰 諡潺 到諰謔科僑 儦扉謔禺湊 域. 諡潰 伊拖 渠 諡潺 穈 科趣 窶寢 窸, 篞賄諢 圉 篚麆刺 欠 赬刷 篚諡渠收諝 潰. 篚諡渠收 2賄 篣賄渥 諢梓頃 v鴗 鴔穈潺 穈 諢賳, 穈 渠 諢 渠ㄗ 魽蛟. 鴔寢湊, 諻 諻欠窸, 伊賈, 諤伊 窸, 12賄篧鴔 . 窵諈拖 6潤賄 禹萼諢 澎, 湊 儦, 賱窸 諈刺穈 諤, 鴔, 諡潰 赬鴔, 寤 賱 . 貒木 篚諢桿 篹 諟寨 窶 鮈 窶. 渠 渣渠收 諴到渥 諢鴞 賄 渥 貐賄 諻鴔諤, 1986, 渣 儦 諻欠域 科 麮湊 圉 木 窱禺蛟.
