I "think" that is new leaves? Not an expert by any means. I believe the blooms appear inbetween the the stem and leaf (leaf axil?) possibly...like the picture here

Can you take a close up of the sepals?

it looks like a little empty sepal, like when a tomato flower first appears.

It looks like there are two more little...spikes next to this one.

let me take an updated photo.

Here, it can get much bigger (better than real life!) If you open it in a new tab/window.

Oh! Looking at that much closer picture you posted I think you might have the beginning of a flower!!!! That does look like its coming from the inner leaf :o)...Please keep us posted!!! Fingers crossed!!

It's strange that the underside of my leaves aren't purple. I thought if it had enough light for flowers, it'd have enough light for purple leaves.

Well, how am I going to get pretty flowers now? Stupid EA.

I guess I can put these two on my "sell list" although, blooming after I've only had it about a month or two...that's not too shabby, must be happy.

when I saw it I said "that's a lipstick vine!" And just had to get it...expecting beautiful lipstick flowers. I may just have to give up on this type of gesneriad. At least my trailing AV is still blooming (it was blooming out of the box and hasn't stopped, I ordered and it shipped the first week of May, highly recommend "Rob's Humpty Doo" to anyone who's bad at flowering things lol).

A. longicaulis, if it turns out to be that, definitely has flowers that leave something to be desired. They're unique, but hard to see. It is a very nice foliage plant though with the heavily mottled leaves. Most Aeschynanthus have much brighter flowers, typically red or orange, though at least one is pink and there are a couple yellows too. People like 'Mona Lisa' 'Big Apple' and 'Coral Flame' a lot. Of those 'Coral Flame' is the most floriferous and is rather compact. 'Mona Lisa' is larger and to me is the stereotypical 'lipstick' plant. I've seen both in stores before. I've also seen A. gracilis 'Red Elf' and A. micranthus in stores. Both are red flowered and were EA products. Keep an eye out and you might come across them sometime. The A. gracilis "Red Elf' was labeled A. radicans 'gracilis' because EA is awful at getting tags right. I'm not sure if they ever corrected it.

If you really want to get rid of it, are you interested in a swap? The leaves on yours are gorgeous! I have a lipstick plant that flowers in red.

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Ashley, I actually have two pots of this!

I have two of mine as well :-)

One is flowering, one hasn't yet, but it's the same thing. Are you interested in swapping one of each maybe? I have some other gessies as well.

I brought the big 8inch pot of that lipstick plant labeled and "black pagoda" at walmart earlier this year and i just let it die. I did not like the foliage and i had intended on using the plant for cuttings to sell but the few i tried did not root.

My walmart had about 4 of these plant in the 8 inch hanging baskets.

Mine are still kicking around, still blooming the silly things.

I should just remove the buds and let it get on with it already.

I know what I'll do...I'll pot it up with some syngoniums. Those never bloom and I love em.....and have a ton of them lol.

The best way to present A. longicaulis - is in a full hanging basket - and let them trail - the leaves are really attractive when sun hits them - they show all this pattern. So dividing a pot into 2 is probably not for the best. Flowers are interesting but - not colorful. You can keep it outside in a semi-shade for summer - and take home for winter- just hose and spray the critters off.