Mussaenda 'Dona Luz'

Masses of large peachy pink bracts subtend the clusters of yellow star-shaped upward facing tubular blooms from spring to fall on this beautiful tropical shrub. The flower-like clusters can be 12" or more across and last for weeks. This rare and unusual tropical typically grows as a small shrub and is excellent in containers. Mussaenda's are considered by many to be a good Poinsettia replacement with a much longer flowering time and better pest and disease resistance. This is one of the many beautiful cultivars developed by Phillipine horticulture and were and are so prized that they were named after the Phillipine first ladies or the 'Dona's. This beautiful cultivar is considered to be a selected hybrid of M. erythrophylla x M. phillipica.