Nature is awesome. Inside the pitcher, you can see some square-shape looking like pixels. Then bigger the plant will be, the more visible that will be.
Aeschynanthus pulcher, syn. A. lamponga, Gesneriaceae
There isn’t a section of Glasgow Botanic Gardens I like less than the others, but I always find myself spending so much time going over all the Gesneriaceae, one by one. It’s a really interesting family with such a variety of shapes and habits, and I am particularly fond of the trailing and vining species.
The one you see pictured was introduced to Britain in 1844 and is often referred to as the lipstick plant. It’s an evergreen subshrub native to the tropical forests of the island of Java, in SE Asia, where it uses its slender, arching stems to climb and scramble over other plants and surfaces. The stems produce aerial roots, which aid the plant in the ascent towards the canopy and sunlight, but it often grows entirely as an epiphyte on large trees.
The common name and the specific epithet (pulcher = beautiful in Latin) refer to the look of the large clusters of terminal, bright red tubular flowers emerging from glossy maroon calyces,
pollinated by nectar-feeding birds in the plant’s natural habitat. Both are covered in short hairs giving them a fuzzy, velvety appearance.
Its growing requirements and attractiveness make it a good candidate to be used as a houseplant or in the conservatory/heated greenhouse, where it looks its best if placed in a hanging container. For this use, the beautiful cultivar ‘Twister XL’, with curled, fleshy leaves, is probably the most popular choice.
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