Pint Plant from Justicia brandegeana Variegated Red. These red shrimp plants have lightly variegated foliage. The popular shrimp plant grows in clumps of weak, twiggy stems that get 3 to 5 ft tall, 3 ft wide, and may spread to form a large colony. The branching stems are tipped by 6 inch drooping spikes of dark red to rusty brown bracts, each bract enclosing a tongue like white flower. Shrimp plant is evergreen in mild climates, and blooms almost continuously. The lightly variegated leaves are oval, light green and 2-3 in long. The young stems and the undersides of the leaves are soft and downy. Zones 8 to 11