Pothos Is Not as Worth Growing as This Potted Plant: Beautiful Leaves and Flowers, Blooms in All Four Seasons, Easy to Grow

Introduction

Potted green plants are already a must-have ornament for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1118" introduces you to a potted green plant that is super worth getting.

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Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) is probably the most common indoor potted green plant. It can survive without much care and can add a touch of greenery to a room, but it basically never blooms, so its ornamental value is a bit lacking. The flower introduced today is called lipstick hanging plant (Aeschynanthus), a new type of indoor ornamental plant that has not been introduced to China for very long. It stays evergreen all year round and blooms continuously, making it more worth growing than pothos.

Lipstick Hanging Plant

The lipstick hanging plant is not actually a spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum). It is a perennial evergreen herb belonging to the genus Aeschynanthus in the family Gesneriaceae, native to tropical regions of Asia. Because its flower shape is peculiar, with the dark red corolla extending out from the dark red calyx, looking extremely like a lipstick, and because its branches extend into a semi-prostrate form and are often grown as hanging potted plants for viewing, it is named lipstick hanging plant, lipstick flower, and so on.

Beautiful Leaves and Flowers

Indoor plants are mostly grown for their foliage, and few are grown for their flowers, such as money tree (Pachira aquatica), elephant ear (Alocasia macrorrhizos), and fiddle-leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). The lipstick hanging plant is different: its leaves are emerald green and glossy all year round, making it an excellent foliage plant in itself, and on top of that it blooms, with both leaves and flowers beautiful, so it offers both foliage and flowers to admire. Its flowering period is also very long; with proper care, it can bloom in all four seasons.

Super Easy to Grow

The lipstick hanging plant is very shade-tolerant and has low light requirements. Placed on a balcony with a bit of scattered light, it can meet its growth and flowering needs. Strong light will instead scorch its leaves, so it is very suitable for indoor growing. Its care difficulty is very low; stem cuttings will root and survive. It likes fertile, loose potting soil and has low requirements for fertilizer and water. Watering once every few days is enough. It is a super easy-to-grow flower.

Blooms in All Four Seasons

Secrets for caring for the lipstick hanging plant: water thoroughly when the soil is dry, provide scattered light, and apply light fertilizer frequently.

Worth Getting

As a new type of plant, the lipstick hanging plant has not yet become a household-name "super common plant" in China, but it is already very popular among flower enthusiasts, with an excellent reputation and a better cost-performance ratio than indoor green plants such as pothos. Grown as a hanging plant on balconies or indoors, it beautifies the room, adds interest, and can also freshen the air and absorb dust. It is a perennial plant: plant it once and enjoy it year after year.