Clerodendrum glabrum

Clerodendrum glabrum
Clerodendrum glabrum

Common names: tinderwood (English). 
Botanical name: Clerodendrum glabrum

Tinderwood, Clerodendrum glabrum, is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree with smelly leaves and scented flowers. It attracts many insects, especially butterflies, and is a host plant for the Natal Bar butterfly. It has various traditional uses, such as repelling bees, ticks, polecats and hyenas, treating snakebites, coughs, colds, wounds and diarrhoea, and counteracting witchcraft. The wood was also used to start fire, hence the common name. Tinderwood grows well in full sun or semi-shade and can be propagated by seeds or cuttings. It is one of the rain trees in South Africa, producing ‘rain’ from the excretions of frog-hoppers.

Uses & Benefits: insect repellent, medicine


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Family: Lamiaceae
Type: tree
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