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| Original date | 3/2/08 3:38 PM |
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| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Handroanthus impetiginosus Family: Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)
Synonyms: Tabebuia impetiginosa, Tecoma impetiginosa
Synonyms: Tabebuia impetiginosa, Tecoma impetiginosa
Pink Trumpet Tree is a semi-evergreen tree that grows
20-30 feet tall with a gray fissured trunk and palmately-lobed leaves
divided into as many as seven leaflets radiating outward. The pink
trumpet flowers have a white throat with yellow stripes and blooms in
large clusters in the spring just before the new foliage emerges. The
tree also has a very valuable timber. With its impressive flowering
display, the tree is often cultivated as an ornamental plant in the
tropical world. Pink Trumpet Tree is native to S. America - from
Argentina north through Central America to Mexico.
Medicinal uses:
The inner bark of Pink Trumpet
Tree is used in traditional medicine. It is dried, shredded, and then
boiled, making a bitter brownish-colored tea known as lapacho or
taheebo. The unpleasant taste of the extract is lessened when taken in
pill form, or as tinctures. Lapacho bark is typically used during flu
and cold season and for easing smoker's cough.
Medicinal uses:
The inner bark of Pink Trumpet
Tree is used in traditional medicine. It is dried, shredded, and then
boiled, making a bitter brownish-colored tea known as lapacho or
taheebo. The unpleasant taste of the extract is lessened when taken in
pill form, or as tinctures. Lapacho bark is typically used during flu
and cold season and for easing smoker's cough. | Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Delhi & Bangalore. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,