Don't only keep pothos and spider plants indoors; this potted plant with beautiful flowers and leaves is even more worth having

Introduction

Green potted plants have become an essential decorative element of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it can beautify the room and also delight the mood and cultivate the character. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1077" takes you to know one plant that is more worth having than pothos and spider plants.

Today's star

"Lazy-person plants" such as pothos and spider plants are the most common indoor potted plants. They are easy to grow, but their ornamental value is somewhat lacking. The flower introduced today is called lipstick flower, a new type of ornamental plant. It can be enjoyed as a foliage plant like pothos and spider plants, and it also has a very long flowering period. Both its flowers and leaves are beautiful, so you can enjoy the foliage and the flowers, making it more worth having than pothos and spider plants.

Lipstick flower

Lipstick flower is a perennial herb in the Gesneriaceae family, genus Aeschynanthus, native to tropical regions of Asia. It is now widely cultivated around the world, and has been introduced in many places in China. Its leaves are thick, emerald green and glossy, evergreen all year round, and its branches are slender and beautiful. Its flowers are very distinctive, tubular, like lipstick, and because it is often grown as a hanging plant, it is also called "lipstick spider plant."

Hanging bonsai

The flowering period of lipstick flower is irregular. With proper care, it can bloom in all four seasons. The red flowers extend from among the green leaves. Red flowers paired with green leaves are full of interest and have very high ornamental value. Getting it to bloom is easy: provide sufficient nutrients, and let it receive morning and evening sunlight, and its leaves will become more emerald green and it will bloom more readily, often giving people surprises.

It can also be grown indoors

Lipstick flower is a shade-tolerant plant and does not have high light requirements. Long-term direct exposure to strong sun can instead cause leaves to turn yellow and flower buds to drop. It is suitable for growing in a semi-shaded environment and is very suitable for indoor potting. It can even be grown entirely indoors. Daily management and care are also very easy. Water when the potting soil has dried out completely; if it has not dried out, let it be. This is the same care principle as for pothos and spider plants. The branches can be propagated by cuttings, with a very high survival rate, and they bloom in the same year.

Worth having

Lipstick flower is an evergreen trailing plant with a certain climbing habit. It grows very fast and can be made into a flower wall or hung on a balcony or wall, with a very good decorative effect. Its deep green leaves, together with its bright red and unusual flowers, set each other off beautifully and are deeply loved by people. In just a few years since being introduced to China, it has become a veritable "internet-famous" flower and is very worth getting.