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Clerodendrum thomsoniae

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Balfour f.

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cameroon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Gulf of Guinea Islands
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Deciduous forest clearings
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

Twining slightly woody evergreen climber to 4.5m with glabrous branchlets, glabrous leaves to 150mm long. Axillary cymes or panicles of 25mm red flowers with white puberulent calyx 25mm long sometimes red, aging purple, light crimson corolla, tube 25mm long with lobes to 6mm long, puberulent leaves

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• VOPR
• USNH
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• Exotica