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Common Name : Bleeding Heart Vine

Hindi Name : ब्लीडिंग हार्ट वाइन | Scientific Name : Clerodendrum thomsoniae
Family : Lamiaceae
Uses : It is known to be used as an ornamental in many places including Colombia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Myanmar, India and French Polynesia.
Native: Tropical Africa
General Description:

It is mostly known as a garden ornamental plant but occurs outside of cultivated areas. Slightly woody vine, twining, attaining 3-7m in length. Stems obtusely quadrangular, puberulent; stipules absent. Leaves opposite, elliptical or lanceolate, chartaceous, the apex acuminates, the base obtuse or rounded, the margins entire or remotely sinuate; upper surface puberulent, dark green, dull; lower surface puberulent, pale green, with numerous dots, the veins prominent; petioles 1-2.8cm long, sulcate, puberulent. Inflorescences of axillary dichasial cymes; bracts minute, subulate. Flowers are composed of 4 white, ovate calyces and 5 dark red, obovate petals and 5 white, long stamens. The calyces form a pyramidal shape with the tips hanging downwards. Fruit drupaceous, covered by the calyx, 2.3cm long, round or depressed-globose, 10-14mm long and wide, glossy black, 2-bilobed; seeds oblong.