Attractive though it is, the chenille plant requires high humidity and should be sprayed every day.

One common name for Acalypha hispida, the chenille plant, encourages children and adults alike to toy with its long, fluffy catkins.

And if I ever say I like acalypha, the chenille plant with the fuzzy pink tassels, just shoot me.

And the chenille plant whose native name, Red Hot Cat Tail, aptly described its flower.

The touch folks gravitate toward lamb's ears and chenille plants with plenty of pettable leaves and floral parts for fondling.

Acalypha hispida (Chenille Plant)

The chenille plant, or Acalypha hispida, is a Coney Island type that might do well with a great-aunt who still wears sausage curls.

Acalypha hispida - Chenille Plant, Philippine Medusa, Red-hot Cattail, "foxtail"

Acalypha hispida, the Chenille plant, is a flowering shrub which belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae, the subfamily Acalyphinae, and the genus Acalypha.

A bromeliad that resembles a pineapple is featured nearby, as is the beautiful chenille plant - acalypha hispida - with soft, deep pink flowers that are shaped, strangely enough, like woolly bears.

A. hispida (chenille plant, red-hot cat's tail), cultivated as a houseplant because of its colorful and texturally exciting flowers, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit., as has A. hispaniolae (Hispaniola cat's tail).

Acalypha hispida Burm.

A bromeliad that resembles a pineapple is featured nearby, as is the beautiful chenille plant - acalypha hispida - with soft, deep pink flowers that are shaped, strangely enough, like woolly bears.