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Clerodendrum glabrum
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Scientific name - Clerodendrum glabrum

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Popular names - tinderwood, White Cat's Whiskers, verbena tree.

Distribution and Habitat - a species native to southern Africa, Transkei until Natal.

Description - shrub or small tree, up to 10 m height. Branches pale gray brown, covered with white lenticels, bark brownish yellow, slightly cracked. Leaves in whorls of 3-6 or opposite each, elliptic to ovate, 1.5-8. X 0.8-5 cm, obtuse to acute, cunea at the base, margins entire, glabra to pubescent, petiole 5-15 mm long. Flowers blossoms clustered in terminal, dense, flowering axis pubescent; bractei linear, pedicel 2-8 mm long. Corolla white, fragrant, tube 6-8 mm long, lobes 3-4 mm long. Fruit fleshy, yellowish white, 6-10 mm diameter.

Growth rate - 1.5 m height increase per year if the summer is hot and humid. Beginis to flourish in the 3rd year after sowing.

Curiosity - Clerodendrum glabrum is an ideal shrub for a garden to attract birds.

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