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Common name: Harlequin glory bower, Japanese clerodendrum, Peanut butter shrub, BP-mana (Manipuri)
Botanical name: Clerodendrum trichotomum Family: Verbenaceae (verbena family)
Harlequin glory bower is gorgeous deciduous shrub or tree. Leaves are
usually entire, opposite, 10-23 cm x
5-10 cm, dark green, soft hairy. When bruised, they have the odor of peanut
butter, hence the common name Peanut butter
shrub. Flowers start as cream colored buds in July then open as soft
pink/white. Gradually, the calyx swells a bright magenta and the seed is a
bright blue. Gives appearance of two separate flowering cycles lasting several
months.
Blooms are very fragrant and attract mobs of butterflies.
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