USDA: 10-11
Sun Exposure: Full sun
Origin: Brazil (Bahia)
Growth Habits: Small deciduous tree, 10 to 13 feet tall (3-4 m), 10 feet wide (3 m); spiny stems; leaves, up to 10 inches long (25 cm), with 3 rhombic or triangular pubescent leaflets, up to 8 inches long (20 cm), 9 inches wide (22 cm)
Watering Needs: Likes moist fertile soils
Propagation: Seeds, cuttings
The specific epithet 'speciosa' comes from the Latin for 'showy'.
Blooming Habits:
Intense red flowers, 2.8 inches long (7 cm), in racemes, 10 inches long (25 cm), at the end of the branches. The flowers appear before or after the leaves, in winter to early spring.
Fruiting Habits:
Slightly woody black pods, without much constriction between seeds, in late winter to early spring. Blackish seeds.
Desert-Tropicals is dedicated to provide gardening advice, gardening ideas, and information about flower of all kind for landscape and collections.We try to check carefully the identification of the plants on the illustrations as well as the other information from the page, but occasionally errors do occur. if you notice anything that needs to be changed please contact us.Thanks.
© 1998-2020 Philippe Faucon, All Rights Reserved.