The flower language of the golden bell flower is strength, confidence, promise, and hope.
Golden bell flower, also known as lantern flower, net-veined flowering maple, and red-veined Chinese abutilon, is an evergreen shrub. Because its leaves are evergreen, its flower shape is unique, its flowering period is long, and it is easy to propagate, it is very popular. The golden bell flower grows in clumps, with upright stems, emerald green leaves, thick texture, ovate shape, sometimes palmate, with serrated edges, and slender pedicels. In the small bud stage it points upward, and as the bud swells it gradually turns downward; when it blooms it hangs especially downward. The flower is bell-shaped and orange-yellow, with bright purplish-red vein lines. The stamens and style are relatively long and extend beyond the corolla. The whole flower is named for looking like a hanging golden bell.
Golden bell flower
It prefers warmth and ample sunlight, is not cold-tolerant, and is slightly shade-tolerant; it is suitable for fertile, moist, well-drained sandy loam. It is native to Brazil, Uruguay, and other places in South America, and is cultivated in southwestern China and other areas for garden ornamental use.
Golden bell flower
Evergreen shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves palmate, 3-5 parted, 5-8 cm in diameter, lobes ovate-acuminate, tips long-acuminate, margins serrate or coarsely toothed, both surfaces hairless or only sparsely stellate-pubescent beneath; petiole 3-6 cm long, hairless; stipules subulate, about 8 mm long, often early deciduous. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pedicels pendulous, 7-10 cm long, hairless; calyx bell-shaped, about 2 cm long, lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, parted to 3/4 of the calyx length, densely covered with brown stellate short pubescence; corolla bell-shaped, orange-yellow, with purple stripes, 3-5 cm long, about 3 cm in diameter, petals 5, obovate, sparsely pubescent outside; staminal column about 3.5 cm long, anthers brownish-yellow, numerous, clustered at the top of the column; ovary blunt-tipped, pubescent, style branches 10, purple, stigma-like, protruding beyond the top of the staminal column. Fruit not seen. Flowering period May-October.
Golden bell flower
Ornamental value:
The golden bell flower is a plant of great ornamental value in gardens. It can be used to arrange flower clusters and flower borders, and can also be grown as a potted plant, in hanging flower baskets, and so on.
Medicinal value:
The leaves and flowers of the golden bell flower can invigorate the blood and remove stasis, and relax the sinews and unblock the collaterals. Used for traumatic injuries.