Life Span
Perennial
Perennial
Type
Palm or Cycad
Flowering Plants, Perennial
Origin
Southeastern Asia
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Types
Red Lipstick Palm
Yellow Monkshood, Carmichael's Monkshood, Kamchatka Aconite
Number of Varieties
1250
0
40000
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Habitat
Riverbanks, Swamps, Tidal coastal areas
low mountains
USDA Hardiness Zone
11-154-8
0
99
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AHS Heat Zone
12-10
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Sunset Zone
H2
1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Habit
Clump-Forming
Upright/Erect
Plant Size
Minimum Height
610.00 cm130.00 cm
0
3900
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Minimum Width
370.00 cm80.00 cm
0
6350
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Plant Color
Flower Color
Light Yellow, Light Green, Ivory
Blue, Violet
Flower Color Modifier
Bicolor
-
Fruit Color
Black
-
Leaf Color in Spring
Red, Green
Green
Leaf Color in Summer
Red, Green
Green
Leaf Color in Fall
Red, Green
Green
Leaf Color in Winter
Red, Green
Green
Shape
Leaf Shape
Long linear and narrow
Upright
Thorns
✔
✘
✔
✘
Plant Season
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Fall, Summer
Growing Conditions
Sunlight
Partial Sun
Full Sun, Partial shade
Growth Rate
Slow
Medium
Type of Soil
Loam
Moist
The pH of Soil
Acidic, Neutral
-
Soil Drainage
Poorly Drained
Well drained
Bloom Time
Indeterminate
Early Fall, Late Summer
Repeat Bloomer
✔
✘
✔
✘
Tolerances
Wet Site
-
Where to Plant?
Container, Ground, Pot
Ground
How to Plant?
Divison, Seedlings
Divison
Plant Maintenance
Medium
Medium
Watering Plants
Watering Requirements
Requires regular watering, Water Deeply
Do Not over Water, Requires regular watering
In Summer
Moderate
Lots of watering
In Spring
Consistently
Moderate
In Winter
Ample Water
Average Water
Soil
Soil pH
Acidic, Neutral
Neutral
Soil Type
Loam
Average, Moist
Soil Drainage Capacity
Poorly Drained
Well drained
Sun Exposure
Partial Sun
Partial Sun
Pruning
Prune if you want to improve plant shape
Remove damaged leaves
Fertilizers
All-Purpose Liquid Fertilizer
All-Purpose Liquid Fertilizer
Pests and Diseases
Healthy tree
Citrus leaf miner, Leaf spot, Mealy bugs, Mites, Rust, Verticillium Wilt
Plant Tolerance
Wet Site
Drought
Flowers
✔
✘
✔
✘
Flower Petal Number
Single
-
Fruits
Showy Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Edible Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrance
Fragrant Flower
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Leaf
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Bark/Stem
✔
✘
✔
✘
Showy Foliage
✔
✘
✔
✘
Showy Bark
✔
✘
✔
✘
Foliage Texture
Coarse
Bold
Foliage Sheen
Glossy
Matte
Evergreen
✔
✘
✔
✘
Invasive
✔
✘
✔
✘
Self-Sowing
✔
✘
✔
✘
Attracts
Birds
Bees
Allergy
-
breathing problems, Nausea, Rapid Heartbeat, Sweating, Vomiting, weakness
Uses
Aesthetic Uses
Showy Purposes
Showy Purposes
Beauty Benefits
-
-
Edible Uses
✔
✘
✔
✘
Environmental Uses
-
-
Plant Benefits
Medicinal Uses
-
Gout, Heart problems, Inflammation, Joint pain, Kidney problems, Nerve pain, Wounds
Part of Plant Used
Whole plant
Whole plant
Other Uses
Used as Ornamental plant
Used in herbal medicines
Used As Indoor Plant
✔
✘
✔
✘
Used As Outdoor Plant
✔
✘
✔
✘
Garden Design
Container, Feature Plant, Mixed Border, Tropical, Water Gardens
Cutflower, Mixed Border
Botanical Name
CYRTOSTACHYS renda
Aconitum variegatum
Common Name
Lipstick Palm, Sealing Wax Palm
Aconite, Monkshood, Wolf's bane, Leopard's bane, Mousebane, Women's bane, Devil's helmet, Queen of all Poisons, or Blue rocket
In Hindi
Lipstick Palm
बच्छनाभ
In German
Lipstick Palm
Eisenhut
In French
Lipstick Palm
aconit
In Spanish
Lápiz labial de Palm
acónito
In Greek
κραγιόν Palm
monkshood
In Portuguese
batom palma
Aconitum
In Polish
szminka Palm
tojad
In Latin
Lipstick Palm
aconitum
Kingdom
Plantae
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Magnoliophyta
Class
Monocots
Magnoliopsida
Order
Arecales
Ranunculales
Family
Arecaceae
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Cyrtostachys
Aconitum
Clade
Angiosperms, Commelinids, Monocots
Angiosperms, Eudicots
Tribe
-
Delphinieae
Subfamily
-
-
Number of Species
1250
1
27800
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