This is a scandent shrub, and can reach 30' tall with training and adequate support. It makes a great espalier.
The speci...Read Morees has showy modified sepals that are scarlet. The colors shown in the photos here are all cultivars.
The colorful parts are modified sepals and not bracts or leaves. The species has only one showy sepal per flower, but there are double cultivars with two to five sepals per flower.
I have attempted to winter over the plant in a pot. It does not look too good: limp leaves, brown spots. It just may be too dry or reacti...Read Moreng to bug spray... any suggestions?
9B grower and I hope this plant is deciduous! A minor freeze in St. Petersburg, Fl, probably only to 32 possibly to 30 degrees, has taken...Read More all the leaves from my young plant and my neighbor's 12 foot specimen. Hope to see this return to its glory in the spring as it has been a favorite of mine.
Update: this one died for me. My neighbors large tree returned after 6 months.
I love this plant so much i bought a new white one though :D
I have the pink kind, it is a show stopper. SO gorgeous!
The only prob is that any type of high wind the tree just bends over, li...Read Moreke it is giving up. The first time it bent over, it sort of came back. The second time, it just died.
Sux...
I love to make love to my wife under it!
:)
Grows spectacularly in the Philippines with some as tall as 12-15 feet. The white one is originally known as 'Dona Aurora' and the peac...Read Moreh/pink one 'Dona Luz'. Both cultivars were were named after former Philippine First Ladies. I have the peach variety in my front yard and each time it blooms, it is literally a traffic stopper.
There is a great range of colors for Mussaendas, from white to red, along with cream/orange-white/pink variations. Red Mussaendas are lar...Read Moregely used in cities in Amazon as Christmas plants, since it blooms around November/December there, showing up red bracts mixed with the green foliage (Santa´s favorite colors?)
This is a scandent shrub, and can reach 30' tall with training and adequate support. It makes a great espalier.
The speci...Read More
Has someone kept this plant in a greenhouse during winter months?
I have attempted to winter over the plant in a pot. It does not look too good: limp leaves, brown spots. It just may be too dry or reacti...Read More
9B grower and I hope this plant is deciduous! A minor freeze in St. Petersburg, Fl, probably only to 32 possibly to 30 degrees, has taken...Read More
I have the pink kind, it is a show stopper. SO gorgeous!
The only prob is that any type of high wind the tree just bends over, li...Read More
I HAVE A HUGE PLANT AND I HAVE TRANSPLANTED
SEVERAL MORE PLANTS FROM IT IN PINK
RITA FROM CORAL SPRINGS,FLORIDA
The flowers of Mussaenda are actually inconspicuous. What is colorful are oversized sepals.
Grows spectacularly in the Philippines with some as tall as 12-15 feet. The white one is originally known as 'Dona Aurora' and the peac...Read More
There is a great range of colors for Mussaendas, from white to red, along with cream/orange-white/pink variations. Red Mussaendas are lar...Read More
One of the best accent plants.