This is one of the plants that appears every year on The Compound without any assistance from us. There used to be a bunch of them in the bed where the herbs are now. This past winter wiped them out. So I was happily surprised to see this one come up in a different flower bed. When you rub the leaves, they have a pungent odor, but the flowers have a sweeter scent.
Clerodendrum bungei, or Cashmere Bouquet.They get much fatter and fuller. Hopefully by next summer we’ll again have a larger population of them.
ETA: Until Mark G. Harris pointed it out, I never noticed the lizard in the flower. When I shot it and even uploaded and cropped it, I was completely focused on the flower. Now I can’t STOP seeing him. The lizard is a photo bomber!
I’ve not seen that one before. Very pretty.
Oh, pretty!
Isn’t “Cashmere Bouquet” the name of a perfume? *searches* Nope, it’s the name of an old line of bath products. I think my grandmother used this stuff.
Does that make you want to order a bar to see if the scent evokes memories?
Huh. There’s a thought. Maybe I’ll do that.
(That’s my great-grandmother in the userpic.)
I thought that was a lizard! I wondered why you didn’t mention his presence. I thought that maybe it was just a leaf sticking though the flower that just happened to look like a lizard.
It’s indicative of my nature. When I’m focused, everything else goes away. I was really looking at the flower. It cracks me up that I missed the lizard, especially while I was actually shooting. He must have been so still.
I tend to be that way too. I’ve had people tease me about that trait, but it’s just the way I usually am.
Hee! I was just going to ask whether that was a lizard at the top, and then I read your last comment!
He obviously likes the smell, too . . . or maybe he just likes posing!
It’s very delicate and pretty; I admit to not having seen this plant before. 🙂
I always thought it was a weed–then I found out people actually pay for them. Who knew?
That little fella is such a photo crasher! That is a pretty flower. I think I remember Cashmere Bouquet soaps… weren’t they little bath squares or something?