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shrimp plant
noun
- a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata ), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
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Origin of shrimp plant1
First recorded in 1940–45
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