What kind of plant is the lip flower?

The lip flower is named because it is shaped like sexy and attractive lips, also known as Yilata Nine sections, Hook Lip Flower and so on. It is a shrub or small tree plant belonging to the nine sections of Rubiaceae. This plant is bright red in color and strange in shape. People can't help but sigh at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature. Grows in tropical rain forests of some countries in Central and South America.

Lip mosaic opposite, stipules in petiole, often connate, apical entire, persistent. The flowers are small, bisexual and white in color. Forming terminal, corymbose Cymes, without involucre, bracteate. Calyx tube short, calyx limb 4-lobed, calyx lobes deciduous. Corolla funnelform, crown tube straight, throat glabrous, Corolla lobes 5, valvate. Stamens as many as Corolla lobes, inserted in Corolla throat or mouth, filaments short, anthers dorsifixed near base.

Lip floral ovary 2-loculed, style glabrous, erect at base. Drupe small, sometimes twin, smooth or longitudinally angled. Seeds 2, homomorphic to nucleoli, raised abaxially, longitudinally angled, seed coat thin, endosperm fleshy, embryo small, basal, cotyledons flat, radicle Terete, inferior. The red part of the lip is not the true petal, but the bract of the flower. The florescence is from December to March.

The lip flower grows in the rainforests of some countries in Central and South America, such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and so on. The plant is bright red in color, strange in shape and seemingly technologically treated. However, it is safe to say that its seductive lips are born, not technologically treated.

The lip flower evolved into this shape to attract pollinators such as hummingbirds and butterflies, which are vividly known as Hook's lips because of their bright colors. Usually born in broad-leaved forests, hillside forests, tropical thickets at 350-1300 m above sea level. However, due to the uncontrolled deforestation in these countries, the plant is on the verge of extinction.