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Forum: Plant and Tree IdentificationReplies: 6, Views: 133
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Olenka
Davenport, IA

July 01, 2009
12:30 PM

Post #6763613

I bought this for a buck fifty neglected and almost bald. Now it's got these gorgeous triple pitcher blooms, sturdy, with now a new, softer burgundy nib coming out from the middle of each bloom. The leaves have a slight verigation. It's been at a north window. Seems to drink a lot. Anybody have any ideas what it might be?

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phalaeo
Philadelphia, PA
(Zone 7a)

July 01, 2009
12:53 PM

Post #6763682

It's a lipstick plant. Aeschynanthus.
Metrosideros
Keaau, HI

July 01, 2009
12:54 PM

Post #6763684

Can you show a focused picture of the plant? You may try placing the plant in front of a wall, so that the camera focuses more on your plant.
MyaC
Magnetic Island
Australia
(Zone 11)

July 03, 2009
06:05 AM

Post #6771705

do the flowers look like these? If they do, they are definitely a Lipstick plant-Aeschynanthus...

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fullofmoxie
Utica, NY
(Zone 5a)

July 03, 2009
11:47 AM

Post #6772601

Definitely Lipstick Plant - my mom has had the same one since I was a kid - it was always my favorite plant in the house:)
plantladylin
East Central, FL
(Zone 9b)

July 03, 2009
02:15 PM

Post #6773111

Olenka: You definitely have a variety of Aeschynanthus (Lipstick Plant). The blooms start out looking like those tubes and then the inner part comes out from the tube, hence the name lipstick because it resembles a tube of open lipstick. They are great plants.

Scroll down this page and take a look at a few of these and you might find a match to your plant: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher[com...
Olenka
Davenport, IA

July 07, 2009
10:47 AM

Post #6788702

Thank you, Everybody! It certainly did open just as you said. Gorgeous.

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