Bignoniaceae Tabebuia rosea DC.

| |	© C.E. Hughes

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Keywords in this picture :

• Flower
• Flower & fruit
• Plant parts

Places where this species can be found :

• Barra de la Cruz - HUGHESFRP

Specimen information

Collection Date
24/02/2000

Collector
Hughes CE

Specimen Number
1930

Location
1km E of Barra de la Cruz towards Playa.

Notes
Medium-sized tree to 10m ht with a short clear bole to 3m, then angular branching with a spreading rounded crown. Outer bark rough mid brown with conspicuous anastomosing corky ridges separated by paler orange-brown fissures. Slash soft, thick, sl. fibrous, almost pithy, pale whitish-cream. Leaves, very unequal digitate, base of petiole sl. grooved; upper surface - midrib sl. prominent, laterals yellow; lower surface - midrib sl. prominent, laterals yellow, tertiary venation not visible. Flowers very showy, on large terminal, 2-branched panicles, the individual flowers large, tubular, calyx pale green, corolla tube green at base, pale pink at tip, the throat yellow. Common along rivers and cultivated as an ornamental / timber tree.

Coordinates
Latitude: 15.490000 N   Longitude: 95.570000 W   Altitude: 10