This is a pretty unusual Clerodendrum that I first saw in the nursery. Then I saw lots of it in Chiang Mai and bought back quite a few large ones over 1.5 m tall.The upperside of the leaves is green but the underside is magenta. The cluster of flower buds start out small, but slowly develop to produce long tubular pink flowers with a bulbous tip. At this stage, the flowers remind me of cotton buds and the magenta external surface of the sepals also contrast strongly with the pink flowers.
These photos were taken on 17 Jan 10 at the nursery. There was no observed synchronous flowering but I notice another plant flowering at HortPark's Butterfly Garden.
