On 15/3/09 17:59, in article , "NickH"
wrote:


Can anyone identify a tree I saw when visiting Croydon in October?
It has pea sized, deep violet berries, each of which has four or five
pink bracts behind it, trailing to form the shape of a shuttlecock.

I assume it is not a native - and, being a Scot, I'm the other alien!

Try a Google image search on Clerodendrum trichotomum - it's a possible and
not often seen.
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Sacha
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