Tecoma capensis

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Photographs by: 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.