Clerodendron thomsoniae

It was quite an unattractive plant before it suddenly burst into bloom, J...

intriguing

You seem to have some lovely plants and flowers on the
roadside,Karen..,.better than all the Willow herbs we have here !

Strange and different, Bloomer...equatorial Africa...a bit of an exploration!! :))))

It must be lovely to see plants you have never come across before..but you seem to know all their names..do you research them ?

Get me a cutting!!!

I only get to see this in the botanic gardens.

BTW - it's Clerodendrum speciosum............

Thanks Meanie! I'll change it!

You know what I do...I type in 'tropical red flowers' and then I trawl all the photos until I find a name...then I trawl the species until I find a good match....

Very inefficient and clearly not very accurate! lol!

Good idea Karen..I'm not up on tropical plants anyway,but Meanie is..so,you know now who to ask....that would be a good help,and save you trawling through all those ..although it does give you something to do ! :o)

Well, you have to start somewhere..........

I've misspelt it - the correct spelling is Clerodendrum Speciosissum.

Here is my photo...............

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/176752-clerodendrum-speciosissum/member/meanie

Just been and looked, Meanie - beautiful! It's only just starting to bloom here. I'm after another one, which I think you may have, with a purply blue flower?

Clerodendrum ugandense.................

http://www.growsonyou.com/meanie/photos/ugandense

or Tibouchina urvilleana..................

http://www.growsonyou.com/meanie/photos/Tibouchina

Tibouchina, I think...gets quite big??

Not in Oxfordshire!!!

It strikes easily from cuttings. It is a South American native though.......

I don't think I've come across anything native to here yet, Meanie...except the Agia tree... and some nasty stinging ants!! Oh - and Fang!

Karenfranceafrica:

Yes, Meanie is correct...it's C. speciosissimum.

It's ironic...I just visited a new GoY member here in San Diego yesterday...he had this one in his yard blooming.

I'm getting very impatient...I'm still waiting for my Clerodendrum quadriloculare (Starburst Bush) to bloom!

Meanie:

I guess I'll have send you some seeds from this plant.

Delonix - I would be impatient waiting for that to bloom!

Seeds for any Clerodendrum are always appreciated here.......

I'll see what I can do, with the C speciosissimum...if you remind me after I'm properly moved in and got Xmas and all that that entails over with... :)

Meanie:

Most species of Clerodendrum bloom very easily and really young. I'm not sure why my Starburst is not blooming (it's possible it not in a good spot or possible not fed enough).

All Clerodendrum seeds appreciated Karen!

They bloom really quickly from cuttings Delonix - the record for me so far with C.ugandense is two months!

Meanie:

Cutting with buds will bloom even while developing roots.

Meanie, I have made a very good contact here...a horticulturalist who is about to do some work on my garden...He will surely have the means! I'll see what I can do! :)

Thank you Karen!

No wahalla!...but you may have to remind me... :)

hello karenfrance,nice meetin you, we have also like that here but a white color, my first time i saw a color like that

Hello Junna and welcome to GoY! Flowers are just beginning to come out here. There are not so many yet because the rainy season went on longer than it should have. I haven't seen this one in white here.

im also planning to plants a veggies like pepper and squash this the best time to plants bcoz rain is not so heavy, its hard here bcoz sometimes the temperature is between the heat and rain a rain that is so heavy!

Our rain is over now until June or July...then it rains and rains until November! Do you have a dry season, Junna?

yes, we have karen but due to climate change we seldom feel the dry season, its always raining here and sometimes im feel so bad bcoz my plants almost destroyed by the rain thats why many of my plants does not survive im very sad karen some of my plants was about a year in balcony garden, but im not going to surrender bcoz my plants is like a family to me i love all kinds of plants

The weather all over the world seems to be awry...in Europe it's warmer than it should be right now...here in West Africa the rainy season was heavier and longer than usual...

Maybe you need umbrellas for your plants? :))