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No one else has entered our current contest of "Weird Vegetation" yet so I'm jumping in with this. It's one of the strangest flowers I've seen. The actual flower is the droopy white part. Shrimp plant gets its common name from the arching 3- to 4-inch spikes of overlapping bracts that cover this plant nearly year-round. The showy bracts range from reddish-brown to coppery pink to golden yellow. The small, white flowers that appear at the end of the bracts are insignificant and last only a short time. Its origin is Mexico, Honduras and Central America. It is from the Acanthus family. (research from various sources)