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Pale Trumpet Tree
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Pale Trumpet Tree
P Native Photo: Rakesh Singh
Common name: Pale Trumpet Tree
Botanical name: Tabebuia pallida    Family: Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)
Synonyms: Bignonia pallida, Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. pallida

Pale Trumpet Tree is a shrub or small tree. Leaves are mostly 1-foliolate, sometimes 3-foliate - the leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, blunt, basally rounded, papery, scaly. Flowers are borne in a few-flowered branch-end panicle, often reduced to one or 2 flowers. Flowers are with the sepal-cup cup-shaped, two-lipped, scaly; flowers pinkish- lavender to almost white, the throat opening yellow; tubular-funnel-shaped; stamens didynamous, the thecae divaricate. Capsules are linear-cylindric, narrowed at both ends, 7-15 cm long, scaly, the sepal-cup persistent. Pale Trumpet Tree is native to Leeward and Windward Islands, cultivated elsewhere.

Identification credit: N Arun Kumar Photographed in Panchmahal, Gujarat.

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