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Mine had very thick "trunks" that were deader than a doornail come spring. Any new growth came back from the ground, so feel free to hack it back once it gets frozed. I've two patches, one in the shade of the maple tree, one in full sun, the one in full sun really struggled to come back come spring. Came up, wilted and died. Thought it was dead and gone, but danged if didn't sprout back up again starting about 6 weeks ago, and now the patch is wider-spread than ever. No flowers yet, so it's a waiting game to see what comes first: Flowers or Freeze... One patch is in front of a chain link fence and it just kinda winds itself through it. The other is in front of a reed fence in front of chain link, it wound itself through the reed fence there, and wouldn't you know it, all the flowers were in my neighbors yard! So I put a 3-step "ladder" trellis in the middle of it to give it support on my side of the fence and now there's more flower on my side now. It definitely likes moral support from horizontal surfaces, so I can see it not wanting to climb a tree trunk. I really like the plant and have the space, so started some cuttings that I'll plant in the spring. Such pretty, complex flowers! From Garden From Garden

Tom, I've never grown this vine, but I found some others who have. I don't know how to enter multiple URLs, so I'll just type them below: (I hope my typing is accurate!) If you can't get these to work, do a gardenweb search, and then do the same on davesgarden. Your plant is coming up under both Clerodendrum, and Clerodendron, so you should probably search under both. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/506/index.html (11 posts down) http://davesgarden.com/journal/d/t/tabasco/2851/ (Sunday September 3 posting) http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/birds/text/hbird_herbhplants.html http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/hummingbird/msg0901315531875.html?3 (The best thing since sliced bread)

I saw this online and am thinking this may be it--the plant has only formed those pink calyces, so I can't be sure yet about any red flowers. Anyone grow this one? It's called C.delectum. I can't post the picture because talking about the sellers has apparently been banned by GW