Cut flower variety
Amaranthus Mira
Amaranthus spp. / Amaranthus
Mira is a warm-season trailing amaranthus grown from seed for long, draping, bicolour tassels that move from soft green into rose, mauve, lilac, and purple tones. It is not a quiet filler; it is a dramatic texture crop for bouquets, events, installations, and drying. Grow it after frost danger in full sun, keep fertility moderate, support it before it gets heavy, and harvest before the tassels become overmature and seed-shedding.
Overview
Why growers use it
Mira is a warm-season trailing amaranthus grown from seed for long, draping, bicolour tassels that move from soft green into rose, mauve, lilac, and purple tones. It is not a quiet filler; it is a dramatic texture crop for bouquets, events, installations, and drying. Grow it after frost danger in full sun, keep fertility moderate, support it before it gets heavy, and harvest before the tassels become overmature and seed-shedding.
Floral use
Design and market fit
Role
Focal
Texture
Long fuzzy rope-like tassels with soft dangling movement and high tactile texture.
Tone
Soft bicolour, antique, moody pastel, warm-to-cool transitional
Form
Trailing tassel; hanging plume; draping line
Bouquet fit
Best in garden-style bouquets, large market bouquets, autumn designs, wild romantic arrangements, moody wedding palettes, and arrangements that need a cascading or draping element.
Event use
Excellent for late-summer and autumn weddings, harvest events, editorial arrangements, installations, and dried-flower work, less suitable for very formal tight round designs unless used sparingly.
Color notes
Orange, Cream, Green, Coral
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Other varieties in this crop
Amaranthus Autumn Palette
Orange / Texture / filler
Warm cream, green, bronze, copper, and orange-brown upright amaranth plumes for textural summer and autumn cutting.
Open variety
Amaranthus Autumn’s Touch
Green / Focal
'Autumn’s Touch' is a warm-season upright amaranth grown for muted green, bronze and copper plumes that feel very different from bright red or lime-green amaranths. It is especially useful when a farm wants a late-summer/autumn texture crop for dahlias, zinnias, celosia, grasses, subscriptions and florist orders. It should be positioned as a design crop: not a main focal flower, but a stem that gives bouquets depth, movement and a modern seasonal palette.
Open variety
Amaranthus Coral Fountain
Coral / Trailing texture / accent
Dusty coral-pink trailing amaranth with cascading tassels for dramatic fresh and dried floral design.
Open variety
Amaranthus Dreadlocks
Pink / Trailing texture / accent
Dusty magenta-burgundy trailing amaranth with cascading tassels for dramatic fresh and dried floral design.
Open variety
Amaranthus Elephant Head
Red / Focal
Amaranthus 'Elephant Head' is a bold warm-season annual grown for dense, dark burgundy, upright flower heads with a sculptural, almost cockscomb-like presence. It is not a soft filler; it is a statement texture crop for growers who want dramatic autumn stems, moody florist material, dried botanicals, and unusual market-bouquet ingredients. The crop is easy enough to grow in heat, but it needs warm soil, full sun, clean harvest handling, and careful market testing because the form is distinctive and can become coarse if grown too large.
Open variety
Amaranthus Emerald Tassels
Green / Focal
Emerald Tassels is best treated as a green trailing love-lies-bleeding amaranth for warm-season cut-flower production. It gives bouquets movement, texture and a soft botanical green that is difficult to replace with ordinary foliage. It is valuable for farm bouquets, florist work, installations, late-summer wedding designs and dried work, but it should be trialed separately from Green Tails and Green Cascade because supplier naming in green trailing amaranths can be inconsistent.
Open variety
Amaranthus Golden Giant
Yellow / Upright texture / accent
Tall golden-orange upright amaranth with large grain plumes for bold fresh and dried floral texture.
Open variety
Amaranthus Green Cascade
Green / Focal
Amaranthus caudatus is a warm-season annual grown for long pendulous tassels that bring movement, texture and drama to fresh bouquets, installations and dried arrangements. It is easy compared with premium cuts, but requires warmth, sun, support, correct harvest stage and quick hydration.
Open variety
Amaranthus Green Giant
Green / Focal
Amaranthus 'Green Giant' is best handled as a tall, vigorous green upright amaranth for bold texture stems. It can be useful where growers need height, chartreuse-green structure and dried material, but it should be trialed before scaling because the name is not as consistently documented as some other amaranth cultivars.
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