This is a shrub rather uncommonly seen in cultivation, although it´s a beautiful plant. It can grow up to 4-5m tall. Has dark foliage in...Read More long branches. The flowers are 1cm around, dark red, coming on the top of long and erect peduncles, that in turn are distributed spirally on a long raceme.
Hanging from the base of each peduncle there´s a bag-like structure, distinctively dark, that produces abundantly a sweet nectar that atracts birds.
This is a shrub rather uncommonly seen in cultivation, although it´s a beautiful plant. It can grow up to 4-5m tall. Has dark foliage in...Read More