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Aeschynanthus longicaulis

About
Aeschynanthus longicaulis is a species of perennial plant in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Naturally, it grows as an epiphyte on trees. The leaves are pointed, 6-12 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, and are dark green marbled with a creamy white on the top and pale green marbled with maroon on the underside. It produces clusters of tubular orange flowers up to 5 cm long on trailing purple stems, from summer to winter. The flowers give way to 30cm-long capsules containing multiple seeds.
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Aeschynanthus longicaulis
- Slug
- aeschynanthus-longicaulis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Genus
- Aeschynanthus
- Species
- longicaulis
- Wikidata QID
- Q3280962
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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