Bleeding heart vine
ज्वालामुखी फूलों की बेलব্লিডিং হার্ট
Clerodendrum thomsoniae Balf.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Lamiaceae
Also called Bleeding glorybower, Bleeding Heart Vine / Bleeding Hearts
Formerly Clerodendrum balfourii, Clerodendrum delectum
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Trop. Africa to CameroonKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, redRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 10 °C (USDA zone 12a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Gota de sangre, Clerodendro
- Chinese
- 龍吐珠, 龙吐珠
- Japanese
- ゲンペイクサギ, カリガネカズラ
- Czech
- blahokeř Thomsonové
- Chinese (China)
- 龙吐珠
- Portuguese
- Lágrima-de-cristo
- root
- Nona Makan Sirih
- Russian
- Клеродендрум Томсон
- Thai
- มังกรคาบแก้ว
- Lithuanian
- Raudonasis šventmedis
- Polish
- Klerodendron Thomsona
- Indonesian
- Nona makan sirih
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Clerodendrum thomsoniae (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.