Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC.

റോസി ട്രമ്പറ്റ് ട്രീ

Family : BIGNONIACEAE

Synonym : Tabebuia pentaphylla Hemsl.

Common Names : Rosy trumpet tree

Flowering Period : December-June

Distribution : Native of Central America

Habitat : Grown as garden plant

Uses : Ornamental. The tree is used to provide shade in coffee and cocoa plantations. An excellent timber, it is used for a great variety of purposes such as heavy construction; furniture and cabinetwork; interior finish; boat building; carts.

Key Characters :

Tabebuia rosea are deciduous trees with bark grayish-brown, rough. Leaves opposite, digitately pinnate; leaflets usually 5, often unequal, elliptic or oblong lanceolate, acuminate at apex. Flowers in cymose panicles. Calyx cupular, bilabiate, densely lepidote. Corolla pink, glabrous outside, lobes 5, subequal, margins wavy. Stamens included with in the corolla tube. Fruit a dehiscent capsule; seeds hyaline membrane winged.