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  • <em>Justicia spicigera</em>, known as Mexican honeysuckle, attracts hummingbirds.

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    Easy-care shrub can take the heat

    Name: Mexican honeysuckle Botanical name: Justicia spicigera Description: In the same family of plants as Brazilian plume and shrimp-plant, this Justicia has brilliant flowers that sparkle in our equally brilliant light. The species name means spike or spike-bearing, which aptly describes the orange tubular flowers.

Georgia Tasker has been garden writer for The Miami Herald since 1979. She is author of Enchanted Ground, Gardening with Nature in the Subtropics (Fairchild Tropical Garden) and co-author with Tom MacCubbin of Florida Gardeners Guide, Revised Edition (Cool Springs Press). Among her awards are the Barbour Medal from Fairchild Tropical Garden, the botanical garden's highest environmental award, and the first lifetime achievement award from Tropical Audubon Society.

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