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Pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia heterophylla)

Dlium Pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia heterophylla)

Pink trumpet tree (Tabebuia heterophylla) is a species of plant in the Bignoniaceae family, growing 6–9 meters tall with a cylindrical trunk and brown bark that is often linearly fissured. The leaves are opposite, compound, with five or fewer minor leaflets.

T. heterophylla has striking bright red flowers, tubular, five-lobed, and 5–7.5 cm long. The fruit is a cylindrical pod, up to 20 cm long and up to 1 cm wide. The pod stalk is up to 3 cm long.



The pod splits along two lines to release numerous thin, light brown seeds, 0.5–2.5 cm long with two white wings. This species is often used as a street tree and shade tree for residential properties.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Tabebuia Gomes ex DC. in Biblioth. Universelle Genève, n.s., 17: 130 (1838)
Species: Tabebuia heterophylla (DC.) Britton in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 2: 48 (1915)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Tabebuia pallida subsp. heterophylla (DC.) Stehlé in Caribbean Forester 6(Suppl.): 330 (1945)
Raputia heterophylla DC. in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 9: 153 (1822)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bignonia leucoxylon L. in Sp. Pl.: 624 (1753)
Bignonia pentaphylla L. in Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 870 (1763)
Handroanthus pentaphyllus Mattos in Loefgrenia 50: 4 (1970)
Leucoxylon acuminata Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 78 (1838)
Leucoxylon riparia Raf. (1838)
Tabebuia arenicola Britton in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42: 375 (1915)
Tabebuia beyeri Urb. & Ekman in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 22: 84 (1925)
Tabebuia brigandina Urb. & Ekman in Ark. Bot. 22A(10): 68 (1929)
Tabebuia camagueyensis Britton & P.Wilson in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 16: 107 (1920)
Tabebuia capotei Borhidi in Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 26(1-2): 19 (1980)
Tabebuia curtissii Britton (1915)
Tabebuia dictyophylla Urb. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 22: 85 (1925)
Tabebuia geronensis Britton (1915)
Tabebuia gonavensis Urb. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 196 (1922)
Tabebuia heterophylla subsp. genuina Stehlé in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 93: 30 (1945 publ. 1946)
Tabebuia leptopoda Urb. (1922)
Tabebuia lindahlii Urb. & Ekman in Ark. Bot. 21A(5): 95 (1927)
Tabebuia lucida Britton in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 2: 48 (1915)
Tabebuia pallida subsp. pentaphylla (Hemsl.) Stehlé (1945)
Tabebuia pentaphylla Hemsl. in Biol. Centr.-Amer., Bot. 2: 495 (1882)
Tabebuia riparia (Raf.) Sandwith in Taxon 4: 44 (1955)
Tabebuia triphylla DC. in Prodr. 9: 214 (1845)
Tecoma eggersii Kraenzl. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 219 (1921)
Tecoma pentaphylla Juss. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 9: 217 (1845)
Tecoma triphylla Mart. ex DC. in Prodr. 9: 215 (1845)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.

Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.

Gentry, A.H (1992). Bignoniaceae-Part II (Tribe Tecomeae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 25(II): 1-370.

Grose, S.O. & Olmstead, R.G. (2007). Taxonomic revisions in the polyphyletic genus Tabebuia s. l. (Bignoniaceae). Systematic Botany 32: 660-670.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Thulin, M. (ed.) (2006). Flora of Somalia 3: 1-626. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (traditional): 洋紅風鈴木
Chinese (traditional): 異葉風鈴木
Creole: Poirier peyi
English: Pink Trumpet-tree, Heterophyllous Yellow Pui
Finnish: salvadorinsoihtupuu
French: Poirier Pays
Indonesian: Tabebuia Pink
Japanese: カワリバノウゼン
Lithuanian: Įvairialapis balamedis
Portuguese: Ipê-rosa, Ipê-rosa-caribenho, Ipê-rosa-do-Caribe
Spanish: Amape trompeta rosa

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