Cigar Plant Mixed Colors Cuphea Ignea Coan is a tender perennial that can be grown as an annual. Cigar Plant seeds can be started indoors in winter or spring, and also known as Mexican Cigar Plant, Firecracker Plant, and Cigarette Plant, this unique-looking flowering plant has bushy dark green, glossy foliage that is evergreen in frost free zones. Cigar Plant Mix blooms continuously from spring until frost, and this bushy compact variety is covered with masses of red, white, rose, and pink flowers that are shaped like tiny tubular cigars. The blooming Cigarette Plant is highly attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies.