Scrambling clerodendrum
वनजाई
Volkameria inermis L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Also called Glory bower
Formerly Catesbaea javanica, Clerodendrum buxifolium, Clerodendrum capsulare, Clerodendrum commersonii, and 10 more
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
- Scrambling shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to W. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cm to 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Chinese
- 假茉莉 / 苦郎樹 / 苦楮, 苦林盤, 白花苦林盤
- Chinese (China)
- 苦郎树
- Japanese
- イボタクサギ
- root
- Chemrert, Loddugåo
- Russian
- Клеродендрум бесколючковый
- Indonesian
- Gambir Laut
- Arabic
- تعريشة المجد
- Thai
- สำมะง่า
- Marathi
- वनजाई
- Slovak
- folkaméria bezbranná
- Simplified Chinese
- 苦郎树
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Volkameria inermis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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