Planting And Care

• Train a climbing vine cape honeysuckle plant on a trellis or other supporting object using plant ties to support the vines.
• To maintain the shape of shrubs, prune long or unruly branches back to a side branch or bud with sharp pruning shears.
• Cut off old, damaged or dead branches at their base and remove them.

Mussaenda Care

• Leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped.
• Large shrub up to 3 m tall..
• Small, orange to yellow-orange flowers are tubular and star-shaped.

Mussaenda Special Feature

Popular plants in southern Florida and California where they are often planted as specimens, massed in gardens and shrub borders or planted as informal hedges or screens.

The flowers are a deep golden yellow and are often hidden by the profusion of enlarged bracts.

Mussaenda Uses