Tecoma fulva

• Botanical Name : Tecoma fulva (Cav.) G. Don

• Species name "fulva" means reddish yellow or deep yellow.

• Synonyms : Bignonia fulva Cav.
• Common Name : Cahuato
• Plant Family : Bignoniaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Tecoma fulva Plant :

• Habit : Erect shrub, branches have purplish tinch.
• Leaves :
  • Pinnately compound leaf, opposite, each leaf has 12 leaflets.
  • Leaflets sessile, wedge-shaped with toothed margins.
  • Young leaves are hairy.
• Inflorescence : Racemes, terminal to the branches or on small axillary branches.
• Flowers :
  • Reddish yellow on outside, stalked, gamopetalous, petals united to form funnel-shaped structure which downy.
  • Sepals cup-shape, showing five pointed teeth.
  • Stamens 4, didynamous, remain inside the corolla.
  • Carpel 2, style long, stigma bilobed.
• Fruit : Two-valved capsule, seeds winged.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : Aug - May
• Significance : Growing in garden as aesthetic point of view.