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| Aeschynanthus with many flowers and buds |
Lipstick
plants that flower --- A New concept.
The lipstick plant is the best
example of a common name put to good use.
Nobody can say or spell Aeschynanthus --- the Genus name.
Everyone would buy a lipstick plant
if they could see it in flower.
Thousands could be sold. The
problem is we don’t know how to make that happen.
The flowering response --- what
triggers flowering is elusive. Is it the
day length, the temperature or age. If
you know, tell me.
Major commercial crops must perform
on schedule. Waiting for the lipsticks
to flower, soon eliminates them from production.
This pictured plant has flowers up
and down the stems, We don’t know why?
I had collected many Aeschynanthus
varieties but this one just decided to flower.
Why?
We will propagate it to see if
flowering can be duplicated on a branched plant.
