Clerodendrum inerme (Wild Jasmine)

Description : Wild Jasmine

Clerodendrum inerme (Wild Jasmine) is evergreen and sprawling 1 meter to 1.8meter tall shrub. Woody stalks, fluffy. The leaves are ovate to elliptical (5-10 cm) in length, acute and slightly shiny on the surface, green, smooth to acuminate the tip, pinnate venation, full margins, leaves opposite to the other, simple. Cyme or umbel consist usually of three flowers joined at the common base; corolla white, fused with five lobes; stemens with 4, rose to purple, and curved ascending wards. The green fruit becomes black.