cigar flower

noun

variants or less commonly cigar plant

: a tender spreading perennial (Cuphea ignea) used as a pot plant and having solitary bright-red tubular flowers with a dark ring at the end and a white mouth

Word History

Etymology

so called from the shape of the flower

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