| Scientific Name: | Clerodendrum trichotomum |
| Common Name: | Harlequin glorybower |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Summer interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Blue, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic, most blades 9-13cm long x 4-7cm wide, pubsecent, margin usually entire, tip acuminate, base cuneate to truncate; florets in cymes, each with 5 white petals, and long filaments and style, fragrant, Aug-Sep; drupes a bright to dark blue to nearly black that contrast well against fleshy red sepals. WinterID: twigs rounded, pubescent; buds opposite, globular, pubescent, dark red; leaf scars round with 4 large leaf scars. | |