Please help me identify this plant.

[Joseph&JacobsMommy]

My neighbor just gave me this and she has them growing in her yard and this is a small piece/plant so I hope someone can idenitfy it. I believe she said it puts off a small flower on top, it grows pretty tall and butterflies love it. The leaf kinda looks like a Hygrangea but it's not. Help...?????:

SilverSurfer you're the best! Thanks for always identifying plants I've questioned.

[Silver surfer]

SilverSurfer you're the best! Thanks for always identifying plants I've questioned.[/quote]

Glad to have helped. Giving me feed back helps.. if I am right or not! Too many people on this forum just give me no feed back or thanks.
Now this is just a suggestion. To be sure, you will have to post a pic of the flowers./or see if the links look like your neighbours plant.Or crush a leaf... if I am right it will smell horrid !

Clerodendrum bungei. Common name Rose glory bower.

http://images.google.com/images?q=Cl...N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://www.floridata.com/ref/c/cler_bun.cfm

[Joseph&JacobsMommy]

I just met this neighbor today so I don't want to go bug her again right away. I will try in the next week or 2 to take a peek in her backyard. I tried to crush a leaf and it wasn't dead and dry so all it did was wad up and to me it smelt like coffee? The pictures/links you sent me does look like the leaves though. I'll keep you posted and thanks again for being so smart and helpful. Do you do this for a living or hobby? You know a lot about plants.

[Silver surfer]

Originally Posted by Joseph&JacobsMommy

I just met this neighbor today so I don't want to go bug her again right away. I will try in the next week or 2 to take a peek in her backyard. I tried to crush a leaf and it wasn't dead and dry so all it did was wad up and to me it smelt like coffee? The pictures/links you sent me does look like the leaves though. I'll keep you posted and thanks again for being so smart and helpful. Do you do this for a living or hobby? You know a lot about plants.

O.K. Keep me posted. If your neighbour's plant has flowers on now, a pic will help. An id from just leaves is very difficult.... to many possibilities.

Me... I just do this as a hobby, it beats watching T.V. Rest of the time is spent creating a garden, and maintaining it. I call myself a Plantaholic! Some ids take a lot of time, research and detective work. Others, I recognise as soon as I see a pic.

[thanrose]

I think Silver Surfer nailed the genus.

If this is a tall plant in your neighbor's yard, you might have seen red-orange terminal clusters of flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies over the fence. If so, it's probably Clerodendrum speciosissimum, or Bishop's miter. That's ubiquitous in old homesteads in Florida.

Frankly, a lot of clerodendrum will grow here, and some of them are a bit invasive. I'd show you a pic of mine in bloom, but I've ripped it out. Three times. I've got Clerodendrum thomsoniae still growing, but the nematodes have loved it so it's not aggressive for me. My sister in Jacksonville has it growing up her trees. It's a vining clerodendrum, while yours is upright like C. speciosissimum and C. bungei.