Steem Plants Contest Week #9 - My Bleeding Bleeding Heart

Hello everyone. Welcome to Week 9 of this awesome contest, the Steem Plants Contest, hosted by @strawberrry. If you still don't know about this yet, just click on the link here? Hopefully you can join us in the fun and excitent.

The plant I will feature this week is one that has been with us for several years already. It is called many names but the name that it is commonly known is the Bleeding Heart Vine. Scientifically it is Clerodendrum thomsoniae.

It is not related to the common bleeding heart plant (Dicentra spectabilis).

The name comes from the flowers which look like a drop of red blood exuding from the heart-shaped calyx. The small, slightly flat flowers have inflated, balloon-like white calyxes from which emerge brilliant crimson or dark red corollas with prominent stamens and style (the elongated part of the pistil) that extend way beyond the petals.

Other common names include glory bower, bagflower, bleeding glory bower, tropical bleeding heart, and glory tree.

Last year a most unfortunate situation happened. I noticed that the plant and its flowers began drying up. That was when I realized that it was dying. It seems like it did not agree with the rabbit pellets my daughter mixed in the soil which caused it to expire. I took some photos of it before I uprooted it.

It was a sad day saying goodbye to one of our elder plant resident. Its flowers were always a source of beauty and joy to behold in the garden. Now we only have memories of it and a bleeding heart to go along with them.

That's all for this post. I hope you liked it. Wishing all the participants a big good luck in the contest. Stay safe everyone and may peace be with you all.

(All photos are mine.)