Introduction to the characteristics of the Hot Lips plant and its planting and care methods

The Hot Lips plant is a flower named for its shape, which closely resembles sexy, alluring lips. This plant is bright red with a peculiar shape, making people marvel at the wondrous work of nature.

Hot Lips plant

This peculiar plant looks as if it has been artificially treated. However, it can be said with certainty that its alluring lips are natural, rather than artificially treated. The Hot Lips plant grows in the tropical rainforests of some countries in Central and South America, such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and others.

Hot Lips plant

The Hot Lips plant is a shrub or small tree, erect. Leaves are opposite; stipules are within the petiole, often connate, with entire apex, persistent. Flowers are small, bisexual, white in color. They form terminal, corymbose cymes, without an involucre, with bracts; the calyx tube is short, the calyx limb is 4-6 lobed, and the calyx lobes fall off; the corolla is funnel-shaped, with a straight, elongated tube, glabrous at the throat, and 5 corolla lobes in valvate arrangement; the stamens are equal in number to the corolla lobes and are inserted at the throat or mouth of the corolla, with short filaments, anthers dorsifixed near the base, linear, obtuse, included; the ovary is 2-locular, the style is glabrous, short or elongated, with 2 stigmas, and 1 ovule per locule, erect at the base. The drupe is small, sometimes twinned, smooth or with longitudinal ridges; 2 seeds, of the same shape as the pyrenes, convex on the back, with longitudinal ridges, thin seed coat, fleshy endosperm, small embryo, basal, flat cotyledons, cylindrical radicle, inferior.

Hot Lips plant

The red part shaped like lips is not a true petal, but rather the bract of the flower. This plant is bright red with a peculiar shape. It looks as if it has been artificially treated, yet it can be said with certainty that its alluring lips are natural, rather than artificially treated.