Common name: Red Bleeding Heart, Java glory bean • Tangkhul: Kajuwon
Botanical name:Clerodendrum x speciosumFamily:Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Red Bleeding Heart is an artificial hybrid of the Bleeding-Heart vine,
producing ovate leaves and racemes of rosy-red
flowers which fade to rosy-rust, and remain on the vine for some time.
It is an evergreen, frost-tender shrub or climber up to around 3 m tall
with heart-shaped, dark green, deeply-veined leaves.
The plant blooms with clusters of glorious scarlet
flowers surrounded by pink and scarlet calyxes and bracts.
Red Bleeding Heart is popularly cultivated in NE India.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Manipur
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