Aeschynanthus buxifolius
A small-leaved lipstick plant from the mountains of southern China and northern Vietnam, with wiry trailing stems, neat box-like leaves and red tubular flowers. It grows on mossy trees and rocks in montane forest at about 1,300 to 2,200 m, so it wants cooler, more seasonal conditions than the lowland lipstick plants. It holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit as a heated-greenhouse plant.
Where it grows wild
Montane forest, growing as an epiphyte on trunks and branches and as a lithophyte on rocks, typically among moss where roots stay damp but drain fast.
About 1,300 to 2,200 m; GBIF specimens include 1,300 m in Guangxi and 2,022 to 2,165 m in Lao Cai, Vietnam.
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