Tecoma capensis

• Botanical Name : Tecoma capensis (Thunb) Lindl.
• Synonyms : Bignonia capensis Thunb., Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach
• Common Name : Cape Honeysuckle
• Plant Family : Bignoniaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 21
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Tecoma capensis Plant :

• Habit : An extensive shrub climbing by adventitious roots with bark cinnamon-brown, smooth, glabrous.
• Leaves : Opposite, imparipinnate compound, leaflets 7-9, sessile or sub-sessile, broadly ovate or lanceolate, glabrous.
• Flowers :
  • Orange or pale scarlet- red, in terminal racemes.
  • Calyx cup-shaped, teeth 5, corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, curved, ending in 4 lobes, the upper of which is notched.
  • Stamens 4, didynamous, staminode present, anthers divergent, exserted, connective enlarged. Ovary on a cup-like disk, style long, stigma 2-lipped.
• Fruit : Capsule, many-seeded.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : August - December
• Significance : Cultivated in gardens.