Tabebuia rosea

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Tabebuia
Species: T.rosea
Scientific Name: Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC.

Common names
English: Pink trumpet tree, Pink poui, Pink tecoma, Rosy trumpet tree.
Hindi: Basant rani.
Marathi: Halka Gulabi Tabubia.

Description

1. Habit and Habitat: Pink trumpet is a tall, fast-growing tree reaching 25 to 30 m high. The crown is wide, stratified, and irregular, with a few thick, horizontal branches; the bole is straight, sometimes channeled at base.
2. Distribution: Native to continental America, and distributed in India.
3. Morphology:
   Leaf: Decussate, long, petiolate, compound, digitate, 5 unequal leaflets, the central leaflet is the larger. Petioles pulvinate.They are oblong, obovate or loblong-ovate, with acute or acuminate apex, entire margin and obtuse base. Leaflet surface is lepidoteadaxially and abaxially, sometimes it can be glabrous.
   Inflorescence: Panicles.
   Flowers: A staminode present.Anther dehiscence is longitudinal.The gynoecium is surrounded by a thick nectary.
   Androecium: 4 didynamous stamens attached to the corolla, alternate with the lobes.
   Gynoecium: Consists of a single compound pistil of 2 carpels, a single style and a superior ovary with typically 2.
   Fruit: Long, slender, linear-cylindrical, brown, bivalve, loculicidal capsule, attenuate at both ends.
   Seeds: Seeds are whitish, thin, with broad, hyaline-membranous wings.
   Flowering and Fruiting time: January to April.
4. Propagation: through Seeds and stem cuttings.
5. Importance: Generally planted as an ornamental in gardens. Preparations of the bark of the tree are consumed to eliminate intestinal parasites, malaria and uterine cancer. A decoction of the bark is recommended for anemia and constipation. A decoction of the flowers, leaves and roots has been used to reduce fevers and pain, cause sweating, to treat tonsil inflammation and various other disorders.
6. Location: Sports ground, In front of Chem Staffroom, New Building.