Creeping plant often grown in hanging baskets as an indoor plant. Leaves to about 7 cm long, 3 cm wide, fleshy, roundish to ovate-lanceolate, entire or toothed. Flowers in axillary pairs. Flower tube to about 7 cm long, narrowed at the base and widening towards the tip, bright red. [A. javanicus hort.]
Malaysia
A. lobbianus Hook., Lipstick Vine, from Java has glossy leaves and yellow-lined red flowers and is sometimes treated either as synonymous with, or a variety of A. radicans.
A. pulcher (Blume) G. Don has a calyx that is yellowish green, flushed with red.
A. speciosus Hook. from Malaysia has leaves sometimes in 3s, orange flowers in clusters of 6-20, each to 10 cm or so long, shading to yellow at the base and with lobes that are blotched dark red.
Source: (2002). Gesneriaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Aeschynanthus radicans 'Variegated'
Leaves variegated.
