Clerodendrum x speciosum (Lamiaceae) from Uttarakhand: DSR_2/2_June 2016

[D.S Rawat]

Clerodendrum x speciosum Dombrain (Bleeding Heart Vine) was sighted in one house in Pantnagar. It is a beautiful tropical climber with colourful flowers and also colourful persistent calyx.

The species is not represented in eFI.

References:

http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Bleeding%20Heart.html

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clerodendrum_speciosum_3163163613.jpg

DSRawat Pantnagar
Dr D.S.Rawat

Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA

eflorapantnagar displaying wild flora of Pantnagar

[J.M. Garg]

Beautiful images, Rawat ji.

It is very much there. Pl. see Clerodendrum × speciosum

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[Aarti S. Khale]

Beautiful capture Rawat Ji.

Aarti

[J.M. Garg]

 I feel it (one with white bracts) appears more closer to images and details at Clerodendrum thomsoniae Balf.   

The other with pink bracts may be different. 

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[D.S Rawat]

Yes it could be but both are from same plant 🙂

DSRawat, Pantnagar

[J.M. Garg]

In that case, it is more likely to be Clerodendrum × speciosum

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