Cuphea Species, Cigar Plant, Cigar Flower, Firecracker Plant, Mexican Cigar

This plant is amazing. in San Diego it blooms year round and looks great. I have dozens of plants in the garden for hummingbirds, and t...Read Morehis is definitely their favorite.

One word of caution: I planted this plant in the front row of my flower bed because it said it gets 2'x2'. No joke, it is 7ft tall and 8 feet wide.

I think I got a mutant plant that gets large, blooms constantly and always has hummers fighting.

I just bought this plant today so have to give it a neutral rating. My Sunset garden book says that the reason it is called a Cigar Plan...Read Moret is that the tubular flowers are bright red with white tips and can have a dark ring at the end (like a cigar). It is native to Mexico and Guatemala.

This is one seriously hardy plant, we had -10C here in what can only be described as our worst winter in a century so far, and surprising...Read Morely the Cuphea ignea looks like perfection, and still flowering, impressive!

Plant is food for some critter, and has never bloomed. Applied a systemic insecticide, and it's eaten up less; still no flowers. Hope it ...Read Moremakes good compost.

Easy for a nongreen thumb to grow. New starts from cuttings are easy and will be ready to plant in just over a week, if kept in a south f...Read Moreacing window with full sun. The hummers just love this plant, some hummingbirds dont even stop at feeders close to the plants. We start with three plants each year and end the year with twenty five or thirty, thats after giving away a few dozen.

Planted in containers spring 2006. Despite the very cold temperatures we had that winter, both plants came back & are larger than they we...Read Morere last year. I was surprised - nothing else that was left in planters over the winter survived.

This was by far one of our very favorite plants last summer. It was a hummer, butterfly and bee magnet and is very easy to propogate fro...Read Morem cuttings. I'm hoping to have them across our entire back fence this summer. Very hardy and a fast grower!

This plant has self sown for me.

I have just ordered seeds from this plant. It apparently can be grown as a container plant in a sunny window. More comments after I hav...Read Moree tried this...

This plant is candy for japanese beetles. If you don't want to spray it because of hummingbirds, the beetles will shred it.

...Read More It's very pretty though and gets bushy in full sun. It takes a while to fill out if grown from seed.