Nematanthus gregarius

It is a wonderful succulent consisting of thin and flexible stems that reach up to 50 cm in length and tend to fall to the ground or fall into beautiful waterfalls of an intense emerald green. It is equipped with small ovate leaves of a nice dark green on the upper surface, whilst the lower surface assumes pleasant pale green tones with a marked violaceous central zone, extremely showy and ornamental. The most striking thing of Nematanthus gregarius are, without any doubt, its extravagant and abundant flowers: of an intense orange-reddish color, they have a form swollen in the lower part, which then goes to shrink at the apex in a sort of small ajar mouth, for a truly original overall appearance and very similar to real minnows (hence the name with which the specimen is commonly known as "plant of goldfish"!).