Lipstick Plant Care Tips: How to Grow Aeschynanthus Radicans Indoors

Easy-care Lipstick Plant is ideal for a hanging basket. Putting it at eye-level will show off itsthickly leaved trailing vines with spectacular flowers.Get to Know Lipstick PlantKnown botanically as Aeschynanthus radicans, Lipstick Plant is native toSoutheast Asia.In their native rain forest habitat, these evergreen plants grow as epiphytes, perched on trees, wheretheir long vines sprawl along moss-covered branches. Give these tropical flowering house plantsthe same dappled sunlight and humidity and they're extremely easy to grow.The thick, glossy leaves are 2-4 in (5-10 cm) long and cover the trailing stems, making this vine a lush,tropical accent for your home.The real attraction, though, is its tubular flowers that emerge from a calyx in bright colors thatlook like lipstick in a tube. Most often, you'll find them in red, but some rarer varieties have dark red, orange, yellowor coral blooms. This exotic tropical is a prolific bloomer. You can expect clusters of 6 to 20 flowers to blo...