Lipstick Palm Sun Requirements

Indoor temperatures ranging between 75 f to 85 f promote the best growth and flowering.

Lipstick palm sun requirements. In cooler zones a containerized palm can be relocated indoors for the winter months. Since this plant blooms in spring summer fall and winter find the necessary lipstick palm care to be taken. I live in miami beach and the palm is still in its pot when i bought it. Cherished for its incredible color cyrtostachys renda lipstick palm is a slow growing tropical palm with a thin bright green trunk adorned with white rings and a long and glossy crimson crownshaft from which the fronds emerge resembling a tube of lipstick.

Indoor temperature requirements of the lipstick plant. Although lipstick palm can be started by seed it s much easier and faster to remove and replant suckers from the side of an established tree. It is one of the most spectacular and colourful trop. My lipstick is about 7 feet tall but kept in a large insulated plastic pot set into the ground with mulch in a very sheltered spot where it gets plenty of warm winter sun.

Buy lipstick palm seeds online the lipstick palm or red sealing wax palm is a stunning feather palm with a brilliantly almost unbelievably vivid red trunk crown shaft found in lowland coastal swamps in se asia the lipstick palm is a medium sized clumping palm which grows to around 6m tall. I bought the lipstick palm in march this year and have had no issues for now. Lipstick palm growing conditions include lipstick palm season its sunlight soil type etc. On jul 5 2009 cagary from trabuco canyon ca wrote.

When indoor temperatures drop to 50 f or lower the plant suffers tissue damage and leaf drop. The scarlet coloring contrasts beautifully with the foliage of pinnate leaves up to 4 5 ft. During the summer months the tree has long panicles of whitish green flowers followed by small oval black fruit. If you re adventurous and want to try your hand at growing lipstick palm from seeds first remove dry seedheads from a plant then remove the seeds and plant them in a planting medium with excellent moisture retention.

All these factors are necessarily considered in order to grow and to increase its life expectancy. The leaf sheath and crown of the lipstick palm frond is a brilliant red and each frond leaf is a feathery green. The lipstick palm cyrtostachys renda commonly called sealing wax palm grows to a height of 20 feet. Requires consistently moist soil.

This palm is now named dransfieldia micrantha. I also treat it with regular waterings of warm water mixed with a cap full of liquid potash and spray the fronds with a light dusting of fungicide in the winter months. Lipstick plants will tolerate temperatures down to 60 f but the growth slows. This one has a bright pink one.

They add a wonderful accent to any outdoor space garden or patio. In the northern end of their grow zone red lipstick palms require indoor protection or heavy mulching during the winter months. On mar 30 2007 palmbob from acton ca zone 8b wrote. I keep it in the shade and it gets some afternoon sun what seems to.

Long 120 150 cm which is deep. Do not let dry out between waterings.