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What is Celosia in english?

Celosia

Celosia is a genus of edible and ornamental plants of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Species are commonly known as woolflowers, or, if the flower heads are crested by fasciation, cockscombs. The principal cultivated vegetable species are C. argentea var. cristata and C. Trigyba which are grown for their edible leaves and shoots.

In English, Celosia is known by Woolflower.

Not all the tree's blossoms will bear fruit.
—Mauritanian proverb