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About Darlene K. Kittle
Expertise
I have been a Master Gardener for 19 years and I raise around 300 houseplants a year including tropicals, succulents, and cacti.

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She is also studying the Japanese art of bonsai with tropical plants and is President of the Fort Wayne, IN Bonsai Club.
 
   

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Topic: House Plants


Expert: Darlene K. Kittle
Date: 6/21/2008
Subject: Lipstick plant curiosity

Question
We have had a lipstick plant (Aeschynanthus radicans 'Crispa') and it bloomed normally after about four years after we bought it. The blooms looked like this: http://www.toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?number=5&op=OR&first=...

However, the next year (this year), the bloom looks completely different, with waxy light pink petals and a maroon center. I have attached a recent picture of the plant...we are just confused as to why the appearance changed so radically! Thank you for your time.

Answer
Falguni,

The plant that is blooming now is a hoya plant, (Asclepias carnosa). It must have been in the pot with the lipstick plant and the lipstick plant has sinc died off but the hoya took over. The vines are very similar although they are not in the same family. The following sites have more info. http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week029.shtml

http://www.angelfire.com/co3/hoyagrower/hoya.html

If you have more questions feel free to write again. Good luck.

Darlene


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