Possible Clues:

• Flower whose name sounds like a branding iron
• The plant kniphofia or tritoma
• Garden plant
• Card game that's smokin'?
• It might be pulled out of the fire in the plant
• Extremely popular game that's seen growing in South Africa
• Blooming sensational game?
• Wildly exciting game? I'm in bed
• Painful prod
• Plant that has been in the fire for some time?