Delonix regia
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Read about Delonix regia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Delonix regia (Poinciana regia, Boj.) Royal Poinciana. Peacock Flower. Flomboyant. Figs. 3085-3087. Rapid-growing tree, reaching 20-40 ft., and making a wide-spreading picturesque top: lvs. 1-2 ft. long, with 10-20 pairs of pinnae, each pinna with numerous oval lfts.: fls. 3—4 in. across, bright scarlet (upper petal striped with yellow and more cuneate), the obovate petals very prominently clawed (or narrow below) : pod 6 in. to 2 ft. long. Madagascar. B.M. 2884.— Now a popular tree in frostless countries, as in S. Fla., S. Calif., Bermuda, and the W. Indian Isls. It is deciduous. One of the most striking and gorgeous of tropical trees. Sometimes seen under glass in the N. Caesalpinia pulcherrima is often confounded with it; but that plant is a shrub or at most only a small tree, with strongly overlapping calyx - segms. in the bud, smaller fls., and very long-exserted stamens. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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