Need help to identify this flower please

This came in a bouquet of flowers yesterday. The other flowers were the typical mums, salal, gerbera daisy etc.

anyone know what this one is?? It's stem is almost hollow.

Really a neat flower. (Ignore my husbands arm in the photo)

 

Hello Buzzbee

it is commonly known as cocks comb it is a relative of amaranth (lovelies bleeding) and is in the genus Celosia

 

thanks so much. I have never seen this in a typical Corner store flower arrangement, or anywhere for that matter.

Will do a google search on it.

Thanks again.

Buzz

 

Oh.. that's what it's called. I always called it "the flower that looks like a brain". :)

 

I actually had a variety of these growing in my garden but they looked nothing like this one. They had a very short stem and were more feather like in a variety of colors. Nice to know the name to go with the plants. Thanks again.

 

Scientific name is Celosia cristata.

 

That would be Celosia 'Cristata', correctly C. argentea 'Cristata'. It's a crested cultivar ('Cristata') of C. argentea, not a wild species C. cristata.