What's the nickname for cockscomb?

The nickname of cockscomb.

Cockscomb, herbs, Chinese nicknames are: chicken bun, old red, Reed flower chicken crown, pen chicken crown, small head chicken crown, Phoenix tail chicken crown, big rooster flower, chicken horn root, red chicken crown.

Distribution of Celosia cristata L.

Celosia cristata is native to Africa, tropical America and India. It is widely cultivated all over the world and is an annual herb.

In China it is mainly distributed in Anhui, Beijing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

Growth habits of Celosia cristata

Celosia cristata likes warm and dry climate, afraid of drought, sunshine, not resistant to waterlogging, and lax requirements on soil, which is a new way to develop courtyard economy.

Morphological characteristics of Celosia cristata

Celosia cristata is an erect herb with a height of about 30mi 80cm. The whole plant is glabrous and stout.

The upper part of the plant is flattened, green or reddish, ridged and raised, simple leaves alternate, stipitate, leaf blade 5mur13cm long, 2murine 6cm wide, apex acuminate or long acuminate, base narrowed into stalk, entire.

The middle part is many flowered, bracts, bracteoles and perianth segments scarious, persistent, utricle ovate, ca. 3 mm in length, the lid will crack when ripe and enclose in persistent perianth. Seeds reniform, black, glossy.

Celosia cristata leaves are ovate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2 cm wide; flowers numerous, extremely dense, into flattened fleshy cockscomb-shaped, curly-shaped, or feathery spikes, with several smaller branches under a large inflorescence, paniculate moment rounded, surface feathery.

Tepals are red, purple, yellow, orange or red and yellow, and the flowering and fruiting period of cockscomb is from July to September.