Columnea hirta
A trailing epiphytic gesneriad from Costa Rica and Panama, with red-hairy stems, small velvety dark green leaves and tubular orange to red-orange flowers about 8 cm long. It is widely grown as a hanging-basket plant and can bloom through much of the year. Our pipeline found no usable wild records, so the targets below rely on the published habitat and on how Central American columneas are grown.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on mossy trunks and branches in humid forest, with stems trailing or hanging to about 90 cm. Its hairy stems and leaves are typical of columneas from wet, mossy forest where the air seldom dries out.
No elevation data were available. Costa Rican and Panamanian columneas of this kind are mostly found in wet premontane to lower-montane forest, so treat it as an intermediate grower that dislikes sustained heat.
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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.