Aeschynanthus speciosus
A large trailing lipstick plant with fleshy dark green leaves up to 10 cm long and clusters of 6–20 tubular flowers about 10 cm long, shading from orange-yellow to orange-red. It is an epiphyte of the forests of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and southern Thailand, and most wild records come from the lower montane forest around Mount Kinabalu at about 1,000–1,800 m. That habitat is mild, very humid and wet all year, so it does best with bright shade, warm days, cool nights and steady moisture.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte, trailing from branches and trunks in humid forest, mostly in lower montane forest where mist and rain keep the air moist all year.
Records range from 150 to 1,829 m, with a median of 1,372 m, so most plants grow in cool, humid lower montane forest. A few lowland records exist.
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