When Does the Cockscomb Flower Bloom? A Detailed Guide to Its Blooming Period

Cockscomb flowers generally bloom from July to September. The flower shapes include cockscomb-shaped, torch-shaped, pom-pom-shaped, feather-shaped, and fan-shaped, among others. The flower colors include bright red, orange-yellow, dark red, purple, white, and mixed red and yellow, among others. The leaf colors include dark red, emerald green, yellow-green, and red-green, among others.

The cockscomb flower is also called jiji flower, laolaihong, reed cockscomb, pen cockscomb, small-head cockscomb, phoenix-tail cockscomb, big rooster flower, chicken-foot root, red cockscomb, and so on. It is an annual herbaceous plant in the genus Celosia of the Amaranthaceae family. Native to tropical Africa and the Americas and India, it is now widely cultivated around the world. It gets its name because its shape resembles a cockscomb, and for this reason it enjoys the reputation of being the “bird among flowers.”

The flower language of the cockscomb flower is: true love is eternal. It grows in autumn. When the passion of summer is replaced by the bleak autumn wind and people's moods grow increasingly melancholy, the cockscomb flower blooms like a blazing fire. Because of its fiery red color and lush clusters of blossoms, people have given it the flower language of “true love is eternal.”