{"id":81,"date":"2020-05-09T04:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2023-08-11T22:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T03:16:57","slug":"aeschynanthus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":"Aeschynanthus"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The genus name, Aeschynanthus, (es-kin-ANTH-us) is derived from Greek.\u00a0 Aeschyo\u00a0 means shame and anthus means flower.\u00a0 The genus was named Shame Flower because of the dark red flowers of many of the species.\u00a0 The most widely know Aeschynanthus is the Lipstick Vine, A. Lobbianus. The stems are tipped with clusters of two inch\u00a0crimson red flowers sticking out of a long, nearly black calyx tube.\u00a0 Aeschynanthus, with 170 species, ranges from the Himalayas to Borneo and New Guinea.<\/p>\n\n

Aeschynanthus are epiphytic vines living on trunks of trees (roots attach to the tree but do not take nourishment from the host tree).\u00a0\u00a0Plants bloom from the tips of the stems usually in clusters or several flowers together along the stems in the nodes of the leaves.<\/p>\n\n

Aeschynanthus are best suited to hanging baskets.\u00a0 They are slow growers.\u00a0 It takes at least a year to get a plant up to a respectable size from root cuttings.\u00a0 Aeschynanthus only bloom seasonally.\u00a0\u00a0Aeschynanthus prefer warmth (70-80 degrees F) and high humidity. They receive frequent rain showers that quickly run off the roots. Since the roots of epiphytic plants are not growing in much soil (if any) in nature, they do not require the lime that AV growers usually add to AV soil mixes.<\/p>\n\n

Use a well-draining mix. Allow to dry out between waterings. The soil mix can be long fiber sphagnum moss or lean mix (1 part perlite, 1 part vermiculite and 1 part peat moss).\u00a0 Aeschynanthus like their soil slightly acidic and do not need any lime added to the soil.\u00a0 The Aeschynanthus need plenty of filtered sunlight but never put them in direct sunlight.\u00a0 In a light garden place them close to the lights.\u00a0 They like temperature greater than 65\u00ba at all times for bloom.\u00a0 They will not thrive at temperatures below 55\u00baF.\u00a0 Humidity levels of 75% with misting promote good growth and bloom.\u00a0 Fertilize with every watering with 1\/4 strength fertilizer such as Rapid Gro or use a fish emulsion fertilizer.\u00a0 The fish emulsion fertilizer will give the plants darker green leaves.<\/p>\n\n

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The genus name, Aeschynanthus, (es-kin-ANTH-us) is derived from Greek.\u00a0 Aeschyo\u00a0 means shame and anthus means flower.\u00a0 The genus was named Shame Flower because of the dark red flowers of many of the species.\u00a0 The most widely know Aeschynanthus is the Lipstick Vine, A. Lobbianus. The stems are tipped with clusters of two inch\u00a0crimson red flowers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwgs.southerndays.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}