Lipstick Plant Thai Pink

The botanical name for lipstick plant is aeschynanthus although lipstick plants are commonly confused for columnea.

Lipstick plant thai pink. The calyx is bronze. Shade to partial shade 55 to 95 degrees trails to 2 to 3 feet long. Members of the gesneriad family aeschynanthus are trailing epiphytes with brightly colored flowers that s buds resemble a tube of lipstick. Like all plants from the tropics lipstick plants suffer in low humidity.

Lipstick thai pink is sought after for its striking pink blooms and its beaufiful trailing foliage. Aeschynanthus thai pink is a pink variety of the red lipstick plant aeschynanthus radicans. 3 members have or want this plant for trade. This plant is shipped in a 3 5 4.

This trailing tropical makes a gorgeous small hanging basket. As with all lipstick plants keep in semi shade. I m selling the plant in pics 3 and 4. Allow getting slightly dry between watering note.

Tropicals and tender perennials. Hanging fixtures can make great homes for lipstick plants because of their long trailing vines. Misting the leaves will increase the humidity perfect for hanging baskets especially in moderate light pink lipstick plant has clusters of bright pink blooms that stand upright on the cascading foliage. So the known habitat of.

I ever saw a similar pink lipstick plant was found in luzon philippines from a research. Slightly succulent leaves are heart shaped and new growth emerges pale green tinged with pink in good light. Too much sun will damage the plant. Thai pink has clusters of bright pink flowers that emerge out of paler bronzed calyxes.

But thailand is not the origin habitat of this pink aeschynanthus. Rare unique lipstick plant with small green roundish leaves that hang straight down producing masses of bight pink tubular flowers. The leaves have a white varigation in them at times. The soil shouldn t dry out completely but should not be soggy.

They have long trailing stems and bright flowers pollinated by birds. Flowers arrive in winter on the tips of the previous season s growth and the flowering cycle last for many weeks. Aeschynanthus chinanthus thai pink i guess this lipstick plant was sold firstly to commercial flower market in thailand under the variety name thai pink only. Aeschynanthus thai pink is especially attractive because of the glossy chartreuse leaves and the pink flowers that emerge like a bubble from the pink sepals many species of aeschynanthus are called lipstick plants due to the appearance of the developing buds.

The pink flower buds are shaped like a tube of lipstick. Pink lipstick plant aeschynanthus thai pink perfect for hanging baskets especially in moderate light pink lipstick plant has clusters of bright pink blooms that stand upright on the cascading foliage.