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These colorful, funny flowers will amuse the most gloomy person. They cheerfully pull out their tongue like naughty monkeys. Their tenderness is combined with unpretentiousness, the shortness of life can last a secondary flowering after cutting off obsolete peduncles
Rod Gubastic or Mimulus (Mimulus)
The plant is called "Monkey flowers" in its homeland, and in Russia it is called tenderly, "Gubastiki". In nature, it is a perennial and annual, herbaceous plant and shrub. In culture, it is grown more often as an annual.
Ground cover and upright, unpretentious and delicate, with very decorative and rich in color, funny flowers from yellow to bright orange and red shades.
Varieties
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Lipstick red (Mimulus cardinalis) - a medium-sized plant (up to 50 cm high) is great for flower beds, mixborders, curbs. Long peduncles are formed in the axils of oval leaves with a well-pronounced venation and a serrated edge. The fiery red flowers, sometimes with yellow spots, resemble those of the Snapdragon plant.
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Short-legged lip (Mimulus brevipes) is a hygrophilous medium-sized (height 40-50 cm) species with large yellow (up to 5 cm in diameter) flowers.
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Lipstick yellow (Mimulus luteus) - is a perennial branchy erect bush up to 60 centimeters high. Suitable for growing near reservoirs, because it loves a humid environment, does not like direct sunlight. Feels great if its roots are under water. Gubastika yellow has rounded or ovoid leaves and flowers, yellow with red or brown spots, collected in axillary or apical racemose inflorescences. It blooms for a long time, from spring to autumn.
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Musky lip (Mimulus moschatus) is a low-growing plant (height up to 15 cm) with creeping pubescent stems. Suitable for rock gardens. Slightly pubescent oval leaves. In the axils of the leaves or at the ends of the stems, racemose inflorescences of fragrant, yellow, small flowers are located.
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Lipstick orange (Mimulus aurantiacus) - oblong-lanceolate or oblong green leaves and dark yellow or orange flowers adorn the branching shrub.
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Drip lip (Mimulus guttatus) - differs from other species in the variety of leaf shapes. Bright yellow flowers with brownish or red spots are collected in cluster inflorescences.
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Hybrid lip (Mimulus x hybridus hort.) Or Tiger lip (Mimulus x tigridus hort.) Are perennial hybrids grown as annuals. These are undersized (up to 25 cm high) branching plants with simple and double flowers that bloom profusely throughout the summer season.
Growing
The plant is planted in open ground in April, in very moist soil, leaving 20-30 centimeters between the seedlings. Despite the unpretentiousness, the soil is preferred rich in humus and containing peat.
When watering, once a month, add 15 ml of liquid complete mineral fertilizer per 10 liters of water to the water. Water abundantly and often.
The place should be bright, but not in direct sunlight, and in hot climates, partial shade is better. Withstand the temperature range from minus 15 to plus 30 degrees.
Reproduction
Propagated by sowing seeds from March to May. An easier way of propagation by cuttings or spring division of the bush.
Usage
Dwarf plant species are used as ground cover, planted on alpine hills, used to decorate rabatki.
Taller plants are good for flower beds and mixborders.
Some species, for example, Gubastik yellow, love to decorate reservoirs, sometimes dropping their roots into the water of the reservoir.
The short-term flowering can be extended by cutting off the faded inflorescences and feeding the plant with fertilizer. Then Gubastik gives another abundant and cheerful flowering at the end of summer.
Lips are also grown as a pot culture, decorating balconies, terraces and verandas.
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