Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Winter Vines, 0 by popper1

popper1 wrote:
The name is Clerodendrum smithianum. The flowers look like the typical clerodendrum flower, 5 petals with protruding stamens. Like C inciscum, it is the buds that are cool. While C inciscum is the musical note plant, this one is the light bulb plant. The unopen flower buds look like little light bulbs. The plant gets a lot of long, hanging panicles with the buds hanging like little lights on a chandelier. It is a heavy bloomer, even when small. I have a few cuttings in 1 gal pots that are maybe 10" tall and have 3 or 4 inflorescences each. My larger one has many and is awesome.