This small shrub has upright slender branched stems that form a round bushy habit. It has bright green ovate leaves and the small bright yellow funnel-shaped flowers are accompanied by large bract-like pink sepals and appear in a cluster during midsummer.

Hardiness zones 11 to 12 

Mussaenda phillippica is naturally found in tropical Asia growing on well-drained moderately fertile moist soils in protected sunny position with mid-day shade and is drought and frost tender.

Lady Flowers is an attractive bushy shrub that is grown in small to medium size gardens as a specimen plant or in group plantings along borders in tropical gardens. It is also planted in large pots or tubs and grown in a glasshouse in cold climates. It establishes in 2 to 3 years and may require an annual prune during spring to thicken up and encourage new growth. ID 1302

Mussaenda (mus-SEEN-da / myoo-say-END-a) phillippica (fi-LIP-pi-ka)

Rubiaceae (ROO-bee-AY-see-ee)
Coffee and Madder Family