Description Firecracker Plant (Cuphea ignea) Tropical marginal in 2″ pot Cuphea ignea, the cigar plant, cigar flower, firecracker plant, or Mexican cigar, sometimes referred to as cigarette plant or cigarette bush is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cuphea of the family Lythraceae. It is a tropical, densely branched evergreen subshrub Cuphea ignea is a hummingbird favorite and attracts other pollinators like butterflies and native bees.
