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diameter, a round, flattened, wavy-edged capsule, which looks like a brown bivalve
mollusc. One immature seedling planted as an ornamental. 6, 7.
Spathodea campanulata Beauv. "African tulip tree", "flame of the forest",
"fountain tree"
Recent introduction. Trop. Africa. Occasional. Medium-sized tree, up to 20 m
tall, with soft, weak wood and a ridged or buttressed trunk; leaves, 30 to 50 cm long,
dark-green, shiny, opposite, odd-pinnate, divided feather-fashion; leaflets, 4 to 12 cm
long and 2.5 to 5.5 cm wide, 3- to 9-paired with a terminal leaflet, elliptic or ovate,
acute-acuminate, entire, deep-veined, pubescent dorsally on nerves; petioles, 1 to 3 mm
long; flowers, up to about 10 to 13 cm long, in showy terminal racemose clusters,
opening a few at a time; calyx, hairy, closed in bud, opening along one side, boat-
shaped, curving upward, nearly as long as corolla, containing water when closed;
corolla, about 10 cm long and 5 cm wide, with 5 oval lobes, vivid red-orange to
vermilion, the margins dark yellow, obliquely campanulate, gaping, segments crisped-
undulate, somewhat tulip-shaped; stamens with yellow filaments; fruit, 15 to 20 cm long
and 4 to 5 cm wide, black flattened canoe-shaped capsules; seeds, woody, with a wide
parchment-like circular wing. Planted ornamental tree. Flowers used in garlands and for
ornamentation. 3(58682), 5(123), 6, 7.
Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex HBK. "yellow elder", "yellow bells", "tecoma" ,
"ginger Thomas" yellow flower (N); nei karairai (Miss or Mrs. Karairai)(K);
neikarairai (T)
syns. Bignonia stans L. ; Stenolobium stuns (L.) D. Don
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Common. Erect shrub, up to 4 m tall;
leaves, 10 to 30 cm long, opposite, pinnate; leaflets, 3 to 10 cm long and 2 to 3 cm
wide, 5 to 13 in number, lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, serrate, acute-acuminate, base
cuneate, sessile or short-petiolate, pinnately nerved; flowers, in large terminal racemose
clusters; pedicels to 1 cm long; calyx, 3 to 5 mm long, tubular, campanulate, 5-toothed;
corolla, 3 to 5 mm long, bright yellow, slightly fragrant, funnel-form-campanulate or
bell-shaped, slightly bilabiate, with 5 wavy lobes; fruit, 10 to 20 cm long and 5 to 6 mm
wide, narrow, flattened, rostrate capsule; seeds, many, winged. Planted ornamental.
Showy flowers used in garlands and for ornamentation, especially by I-Kiribati. 3-
(58656), 5(193), 6, 7, 8(9570).