Chinese hat plant
Holmskioldia sanguinea Retz.
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Lamiaceae
Also called Chinese Hat Plant, Chinese hatplant
Formerly Hastingia coccinea, Hastingia scandens, Holmskioldia rubra, Platunum rubrum
When it flowers
Flowers June to April 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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Himalaya to MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Spanish
- Sombrilla china
- Portuguese
- Chapéu-chinês
- Chinese
- 冬紅花, 冬红
- Chinese (China)
- 冬红
- French
- Chapeau chinois
- Russian
- Холмшельдия кроваво-красная
- Finnish
- mandariininhattu
- Slovak
- tanierikovec krvavý
- Simplified Chinese
- 冬红
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Holmskioldia sanguinea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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