Agapetes hosseana 'Red Elf'

Agapetes are evergreen shrubs related to blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) but with larger and showier flowers. This is a plant known in the trade as a selected form or hybrid of Agapetes serpens. We finally obtained cuttings a few years ago only to realize it is simply a very typical form of the lovely Agapetes hosseana, a species which we were already growing from seed collected wild in northern Thailand. This species has small, glossy and deep green, rounded–elliptic leaves arranged along long arching pendulous stems. The beautiful and interesting, narrowly tubular red flowers hang in clusters along the pendulous stems. The red flowers are highlighted by the brilliant deep green corolla lobes. Agapetes are epiphytic in the wild and best in a hanging basket or on an old stump.

Plant Characteristics

• Evergreen
• Flowering

• Indoors
• Outdoors

• Partial shade

• Hardy to +20F

R1 - easy and reliable using standard methods of cultivation

Not Fragrant

2 feet+

Small band