"Lipstick" Plant – Botanical Garden, Montréal, Québec

Aeschynanthus is a genus of approximately 140 species of evergreen tropical flowering plants, all of which have long, trailing stems and bright flowers. Native to the warm, moist regions of Asia and the Pacific Islands, these herbaceous gesneriads are often called lipstick plants due to their showy flowers that look like lipstick rising from a tube. The large, fleshy, dark green leaves are up to 4 inches (10 cm) long and 1½ inches (3.8 cm) wide and are arranged in groups along the stems.