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Tecoma capensis
Tecoma capensis
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Dr. Maulik Gadani
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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.