Share With Your Friends
How to Grow
Sunlight
Partial Shade
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Epiphyte, Houseplant, Vine
Lifespan
Perennial
Flower
This plant flowers freely with terminal flower clusters. Buds appear first and resemble tubes of lipstick, hence the common name., Tubular scarlet red flowers follow, with yellow throats and 5-lobed petals that are shorter on top than bottom and have leaf like bracts at the base The fragrance of the flower is malodorus (unpleasant)
Fruit
1.5" long capsule.
Benefits
Attracts
Hummingbirds
Taxonomy
Order
Lamiales
Family
Gesneriaceae
Genus
Aeschynanthus