Exotic plant of the South - Dragon Spitting Pearls
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Scientific Name: Dragon Spitting Pearls, Also Known As: Qilin Spitting Pearls,珍珠宝草 (Pearl Treasure Grass), 珍珠宝莲 (Pearl Treasure Lotus), 臭牡丹藤 (Stinky牡丹 Vine), 白花蛇舌草 (White Flower Snake Tongue Grass)
Family: Verbenaceae, Genus: Clerodendrum
Dragon Spitting Pearls is native to tropical West Africa. It was introduced to the UK in 1790, mainly for greenhouse cultivation and ornamental purposes, and it has been widely cultivated in various European botanical gardens. Currently, Europe and America use Dragon Spitting Pearls for potted plant ornamental purposes, decorating windowsills and small courtyards in summer. To date, Yagil Nurseries in Israel and the Os Pacific Plant Company in Australia have begun industrialized production for the international market (G-Y). The history of cultivating Dragon Spitting Pearls in China is not long. In the early 20th century, it was cultivated in cities such as Guangzhou and Xiamen in the south. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was introduced to various botanical gardens for greenhouse cultivation. Now, there is mass production in cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai, and potted Dragon Spitting Pearls can be found in the flower markets of various places, beginning to enter into home potted plant decoration.
Dragon Spitting Pearls, Verbenaceae, is a perennial evergreen vine. It grows 2 to 5 meters high with four-angled stems; leaves are opposite, oblong, 6 to 10 cm long. The cyme is axillary; it blooms in spring and summer with very beautiful flowers. The calyx is white and larger, the corolla is dark red on the upper part. When the flowers bloom, the red corolla extends out from the white calyx, resembling a dragon spitting pearls, hence the name. It is a weak woody vine with four-angled stems. The single leaves are opposite, deep green, ovate-oblong or ovate, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, the veins originate from the base in three, entire, with short petioles. The cyme is terminal or axillary, loose, dichotomously branched, with a short, green calyx tube, white, ovate lobes that are persistent, a cylindrical, soft corolla tube, 5 deep red lobes extending from the calyx, the stamens and pistil are very long, protruding out of the corolla, flowering in spring and summer. The fruit is a fleshy spherical blue berry, with large, oblong, black seeds.
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