Here's the peanut butter plant in bloom. Quite a lot of blooms. When the leaves are crushed in your hand it gives off an aroma that smells like peanut butter. A really good conversation piece when some one is touring your garden. I got this from Azalea at one of the swaps several years ago. Thanks again.
Not only interesting but pretty! Do you know what it is named so I can research it? pod
Jim, you really hit on a subject near, and dear to me ;Clerodendrum Trichotomum. As a little child my memories of running through the hedges of clerodendrum, and feeling like one of the butterflys.The shrub was so unique that for the longest time we were the only ones with it, but as they are very prolific neighbors took seedlings until most all were familier with the shrub.When we built our house here in 1982, I too got some seedlings from the old home place, and become a child every august with the return of the butterflys.This is one of the seedlings;Mike
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/772/
I planted two of those this spring they seem to be doing well but all I could find was some twigs from forest farm. Hopefully they will grow fast. I'm thinking of pruning it into a tree down the road, is it pretty easy to get a decent looking tree out of them?
Yes, but I'm disapointed in the way it looks.The main feature is 3 stims, comming up from the ground, and making a tree, to about 15' tall.The single trunk that I forced has a tendentcy to bow over.M
Invasive, but not intrusive, at least to the point of being a real nusance.The seeds are carried by birds to varrious places, and they are viable.Every year I find seedlings scattered, but I only dig them and share with others.I didn't mention how much the hummers love them, and it is a circus watching hummers, and butterflys at work.Mike
Can I put one of those in the shade?
Ok, now all we need is a jelly tree.
chris
Chris, plant it next to a "sugar berry" and take care of the hungries.
I'll keep an eye out for a new seedling, and remember you.They usually come up right after dropping seed.I have promiced some seed, and I can't gather them all.The seed is the beauty of the shrub.They really stand out.Mike
This sounds like something that could be traded! Mike/Jim is that possible? It sounds like a great plant/tree. Blooms in August can you then trim it down some and make babies out of it. Mike, you're now a propagation expert, right???
Sounds like a nice old fashioned tree, I like that.
Coby
This plant gets even more beautiful when it is covered in the red seedpods. I can hardy wait for my plant to get large enough to bloom.
