Medinilla sp. 'Kinabalu'

[Al in Kona]

Some Medinilla topics being discussed here recently so wanted to share this very nice orange flowering species called Medinilla 'Kinabalu'. It grows very well for me between a Cyrtostachys and a Dypsis madagascarienses 'mahajanga' - mostly in a very sunny situation all morning, then filtered afternoon light as the Dypsis leaves give shade. The flowers are a true orange color although the photographs don't seem to catch that real orange coloring to well. Anyway here are two pics of it growing in the garden here. Anyone else growing this Medinilla?

[Jeff Searle]

I used to have this many years ago, but I just couldn't get it to grow very good. Yours looks absolutely beautiful. I know this under the name of M. scortichinii, unless there's another orange flowering specie. Very nice though.....

Jeff

[aussiearoids]

hey Jeff , I'll swap you an e from my wrongly spelt Medinella , I am a hopeless speller , spellcheck just does not work with botanical names , unless you add them everytime you write them out [ after checking that they are correct.

I found it to be spelt scortechinii. Medinilla scortechinii

[realarch]

Nice looking Medinilla Al, I like the compact nature. Looks like stays pretty tidy as well and I like the contrast to to the black lava rock.

Tim

[Al in Kona]

Thanks for giving me the species name on this orange flowering Medinilla.

Yes Tim, it is a nice compact plant and stays very tidy. Never have needed to prune it back yet altho I may want to some day. It's a very nice low maintenance landscape plant that seems to continually be in flower. Another shrub that never stops flowering for me here is Pachystachys lutea or often called Lollypop plant.