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Clerodendrum bungei Steud.

Rose glorybower, Rose glorybower, glory-flower, strong-scented glorybower

Climate known 69 photographs
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Summary

Clerodendrum bungei, commonly known as rose glory bower, glory flower or Mexican hydrangea, is a species of flowering plant in the deadnettle family, Lamiaceae. Native to China, it is commonly grown in gardens as an ornamental shrub. It has escaped from cultivation and is naturalized in the Americas.

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About the genus · Clerodendrum

Clerodendrum is a genus of flowering plants formerly placed in the family Verbenaceae, but now considered to belong to the Lamiaceae (mint) family. Its common names include glorybower, bagflower, pagoda flower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified in the subfamily Ajugoideae, being one of several genera transferred from Verbenaceae to Lamiaceae in the 1990s, based on phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular data.

Text from Wikipedia, “Clerodendrum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
Steud.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central +5
Wild records
377 in range· 142 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Jul, mean day; nights 23 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1354mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 228 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–33DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1354 mm a year, wettest June at 228 mm, driest December at 28 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 33 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -5.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Clerodendrum foetidum Bunge; Clerodendrum fragrans var. foetidum Bakh.; Volkameria bungei (Steud.) Lavallée.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to September in the northern hemisphere (April to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1042 mm of 1354 mm) falls in April to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.1 °C against a yearly mean of 16.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1354 mm a year, wettest June at 228 mm, driest December at 28 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1354 mm a year at the habitat, 1042 mm of it April to September. Wettest month June at 228 mm, driest December at 28 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 903 mm to 2127 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 33 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 33 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -5.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -5.1 °C, the absolute minimum -16.2 °C, about 40 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 1.2 °C in January (across the envelope cells -4.5 °C to 7.1 °C), warmest day 29.5 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -5.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 8 °C in Jan to 30 °C in Jul; mean night from 1 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1354 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 315 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -16.2 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.6 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost33.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-16.2° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 16–33RH 60–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 315 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C8 / 4–1610 / 6–1815 / 11–2121 / 17–2525 / 21–2727 / 23–3030 / 24–3329 / 24–3226 / 21–2921 / 16–2616 / 11–2111 / 6–17
Night °C1 / -5–73 / -2–97 / 2–1212 / 8–1617 / 12–2020 / 16–2323 / 17–2622 / 17–2519 / 14–2214 / 9–188 / 3–133 / -2–8
Rain mm32 / 7–8945 / 12–12069 / 25–192123 / 47–242185 / 90–295228 / 117–368212 / 144–329174 / 127–310120 / 79–19784 / 52–12354 / 22–9028 / 7–54
DLI16 / 13–2218 / 14–2622 / 17–3127 / 22–3630 / 26–3529 / 26–3433 / 29–3631 / 28–3326 / 21–2921 / 15–2618 / 13–2216 / 12–21
RH %61 / 57–6762 / 57–6762 / 56–6762 / 56–6762 / 58–6764 / 60–6864 / 61–6964 / 61–6863 / 60–6761 / 58–6661 / 58–6560 / 57–65

Each figure is the median across the 315 grid cells holding the 373 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1217:5968 (29.125, 118.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -16.2 °C, 1st-percentile night -5.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 33.6 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 315 distinct grid cells holding the 373 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1217:5968 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 29.00_118.125, lapse-corrected -79 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 210 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central, Qinghai, China Southeast, Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam· introduced: Great Britain, Spain, Marianas, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Bolivia, Brazil South, Argentina Northwest
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker30.295, 109.479 · in the densest population, 219 records (58% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 377 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 142 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 941 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 377 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Анна Кириченко, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Jon Sullivan, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Leila Dasher, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Clerodendrum bungei, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Abietane Diterpenoids from Clerodendrum bungei
Shanshan Liu, Huilin Zhu, Shuwei Zhang, Xiao Hui Zhang (2008) · Journal of Natural Products
Chemical Constituents from Clerodendrum bungei and Their Cytotoxic Activities
Shanshan Liu, Tong Zhou, Shuwei Zhang, Li‐Jiang Xuan (2009) · Helvetica Chimica Acta
Constituents of Clerodendrum bungei
Hui Yang, Ai‐Jun Hou, Shuang‐Xi Mei, Han‐Dong Sun (2002) · Journal of Asian Natural Products Research
Ethnoveterinary Survey Conducted in Baiku Yao Communities in Southwest China
Binsheng Luo, Qimin Hu, Kedao Lai, Arvind Bhatt (2022) · Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Anti‐complement activity of isolated compounds from the roots of Clerodendrum bungei Steud.
Soo‐Ki Kim, Sangbuem Cho, Hyung‐In Moon (2010) · Phytotherapy Research
Chemical compositions and repellent activity of Clerodendrum bungei Steud. essential oil against three stored product insects
Xinxin Lu, Na‐Na Hu, Yue‐Shen Du, Almaz Borjigidai (2021) · DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tissue culture-free transformation of traditional Chinese medicinal plants with root suckering capability
Jinghua Lu, Suhui Lu, Chunli Su, Shuai Deng (2023) · Horticulture Research
Two Novel Diterpenoids from Clerodendrum Bungei.
Tian-Pei Fan, Zhi‐Da Min, Munekazu Iinuma (1999) · Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity-guided Identification of Compounds from Clerodendrum bungei Steud by HPLC-ESI- QTOF-MS/MS
Huang Xiao-Long, Wan Dan, Shu Jun, Liang-zi Fang (2019) · Digital Chinese Medicine

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Clerodendrum 7 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 77 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.