✿Verbenaceae · Clerodendrum
Bolungre / Bridal Veil
Clerodendrum nutans
Also known as Nodding Clerodendron, Wallich's Glorybower, Nutan Bleeding Heart
Shrub
- Habit
- Shrub
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Clerodendrum nutans
- Genus
- Clerodendrum
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Cultivated in gardens
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bolungre itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- Spike (stalkless flowers along a stem)recorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bolungre itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Garo
- Bolungre, Samapul
- Khasi
- Horrandieng, Jathang kaskei, Mei sohrandi
- Mizo
- Phuihnam-hnah-sawl
About Bolungre
Bridal Veil (Clerodendrum nutans) is a shrub in the Verbenaceae family. It is cultivated in gardens.
Botanical family
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Bolungre belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
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