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Clerodendrum thomsoniae
Also called Bleeding Glory Bower, Bleeding Heart Vine, Glorytree, Bleeding Heart Vine / Bleeding Hearts, Bleeding Glorybower
Bagflower (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is an evergreen climbing vine from tropical West Africa, grown for its striking white-and-red flowers. It needs warmth, humidity and bright light, and is usually grown as a greenhouse or indoor-conservatory plant in cooler regions.
Clerodendrum thomsoniae is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clerodendrum of the family Lamiaceae, native to tropical west Africa from Cameroon west to Senegal. It is an evergreen liana growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall, with ovate to oblong leaves 8–17 cm (3–7 in) cm long. The flowers are produced in cymes of 8–20 together, each flower with a pure white to pale purple five-lobed calyx 2.5 cm in diameter, and a red five-lobed corolla 2 cm long and in diameter. The flowers are born in cymose inflorescences arising from the axils of the leaves. The leaves, in turn, are arranged opposite to each other and at right angles to the pairs above and below.
An unambiguous common name is bleeding glory-bower; terms like "glory-bower", "bagflower" or "bleeding-heart vine" are also often encountered but can refer to any of the roughly 400 species of Clerodendrum.
Rose glorybower · Stickbush · Lolly bush · Clerodendrum glandulosum · Turk's turbin · Clerodendrum infortunatum · Pagoda Flower · Sage Glorybower · Fire Works · Javanese glorybower · Clerodendrum splendens · Downy Chancetree
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clerodendrum thomsoniae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
