Family: Verbenaceae
Plant: A shrub or small tree to 4m high.
Flower: White, usually hairy, tubular, with a slender tube 20-25mm long, 5 spreading lobes and protruding stamens, in dense terminal corymbs.
Flowering: October-February.
Fruit: A shiny black drupe 8-10mm diameter on a fleshy red calyx.
Leaves: Opposite, dark green ovate to elliptic 4-14cm long and 20-45mm wide. The young leaves soft, thin, velvety on the underside and have slightly lobed margins. The mature leaves are thicker, harsher, usually hairless and often glossy.
Habitat: Rainforest margins and in gullies in wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Slender white tubular flowers with protruding stamens. Clusters of shiny black fruit on a fleshy red calyx.
Name:
Clerodendrum
From Greek = chance-tree (referring to its unpredictable medicinal properties)
tomentosum From Latin = felty (referring to the underside of its leaves)
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Type |
Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster, |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Black, Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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