Sorry peeps, but I HATE the use of names such as 'Goldfish Flower Plant', or the 'Cigar Plant'.

If this name came from a Google search, then it would also have given a binomial name. Why not use it?

It contain zitch information, like the "Widow Maker" gum trees in Australia, or the Austrailian Red Cedar (Toona australis [syn T. ciliata], a member of the Mahogany family) and 20,000 other common, ie local, names.

End of gripe!

Looks like it is.

Point taken.

To my eyes it closely resembles Columnea nematanthus. For example: https://www.melindamyers.com/audio-video/melindas-garden-moment-audio-tips/houseplants-holiday-plants-cut-flowers/grow-goldfish-plant-columnea-nematanthus-indoors

There is also Nematanthus species too that also go by Goldfish plants. It could be one of them too. Eg: https://lyndonlyon.com/nematanthus.htm. But I could not pick one to be good candidate.

Personally, I find local and colloquial names to be far more fun, interesting and evocative than the scientific names, however precise they may be. Granted that scientific names are useful too.

Common names are certainly memorable and fun. But they're not specific and they're not universal. If you want a definite id you need the binomial.

We absolutely do need the botanical names, and I agree common names are often fun and often poetic. I like both, but for positive ID botanical names win.

FWIW, it's usually fairly easy to enter a common name + 'plant' in Google Image search and find the correct match, IMPE. A number of Columnea varieties came up when I used the term 'goldfish flower plant'.

Some of the top botanists that name new species, aren't happy with a lot of the common names given to plants, and are out to change their common names to new names that make more sense. They also aim to give newly named species,(without a common name) more descriptive newly minted common names. They aren't happy with many of the old names, especially plants named bastard such and such, and false such and such. Examples are Comandra umbellata being called Bastard Toadflax, and Brickellia eupatorioides being called False Boneset. It's fun to use both binomial and common names at different times, but it seems a lot of people are content with just knowing the common name, which always leads to confusion. I just was explaining this to some people who were confused about Bittersweet Nightshade and Bittersweet. If they had been using binomials, there wouldn't have been any confusion, and we know those 2 species are very different and are in 2 different families. Of course people have a hard time adjusting to new binomial names, (Cornus to Benthamidia) ect., so I'm sure it will take a long time for any new common names to be accepted. I think it's funny that Goldfish Flower is upsetting to some, including me. I've been in other plant ID groups where someone submitted Epipremnum aurea, and 200 comments followed up with Pothos as the answer. Talk about righteous anger! I've seen the same thing with Codiaeum being ID'd as Croton. People might go through life thinking it's a Croton, not knowing it's Codiaeum, or that there is a genus named Croton with very different plants. On the one hand people might not know any better, on the other hand, they do know better, but they don't care, and out of laziness they continue to use common names in conversations where the binomial is more appropriate. Goldfish Flower angers me, because I feel that the name really lessens a plant that is so much more.

This is Scutellaria integrifolia. It's original common name is Helmet Skullcap.

Tractor Seats might be a more appropriate common name.

FYI, I've seen Pothos and Croton given as answers HERE, and the OP was satisfied with the answer, and noone clarified and fine tuned it for them?

No worries Fof.

I cross posted this to three forums as I mentioned in my first post to reach a wider audience. I understand that 'Name the plant' forum tends to favor binomial names and rightly so. But the other two forums, in my experience, tend to favor common names.

I wonder If I had a title like "Is this Columnea nematanthus?" what would have been the response. Or better yet "What is this plant?"

Carol: I did not know the name of the plant in advance? Otherwise I would not need to post. I did a image search and picked one I thought is a close match. I posted to get a confirmation or an alternate answer.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, toc. My comment was directed at the idea that common names are too confusing.

I try to avoid any ID groups that favor common names. The blind leading the blind.