Globe Amaranth Flowers
Globe Amaranth flowers look and feel like papery and artificial. Although magenta color is very common, but there are also white, red and pale mauve varieties. Often these flowers are plants as borders or beds in a garden and these plants are easy to grow and maintain. Globe amaranth flowers look like tiny pom-poms on a bushy plant and filling up any garden with its non-stop flowers. Dried flowers are often used in flower arrangements.
Common Name: Globe Amaranth, Gomphrena, Bachelor’s buttons
[In Tamil: Vadamalli, வாடாமல்லி]
Botanical Name: Gomphrena globosa
Family: Amaranthaceae (amaranth family)