Peltophorum
| Origin: | ✈ | ? |
|---|
| Exposure: | ☼ | ?"?" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property. |
|---|---|---|
| Water: | ◍ | ?"?" is not in the list (wet, moist, moderate, dry, less when dormant) of allowed values for the "Water" property. |
Read about Peltophorum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
|
|---|
|
Peltophorum (Greek, shield and bearing, referring to the peculiar stigma). Leguminosae. A few species of splendid tropical trees, belonging to the same tribe as the gorgeous Poinciana and Caesalpinia. Flowers yellow; petals 5, roundish; stamens 10, free, declinate; filaments pilose at base; ovary sessile, 2- to many-ovuled: pod nattish, indehiscent, with narrowly winged margins. Peltophorum is distinguished from Caesalpinia and Poinciana by the valvate calyx-segms. of the latter, while the two former have their calyx- segms. strongly imbricated. The peculiar stigma of Peltophorum readily distinguishes it from its close allies, Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon (logwood) . These genera represent a- type of structure widely different from the northern pea-shaped fls., as they have 5 distinct petals which are all about the same size and shape. There is a fine colored plate of a Peltophorum in Blanco's "Flora of the Philippines," where the golden fls. are nearly 1 1/2 in. across, a dozen of them in each raceme, and 4 racemes uniting to form a great panicle. Peltophorums have the Mimosa type of foliage. Each lf. of P. Inerme has 8-10 pairs of pinnae, and each pinna 10-20 pairs of lfts. The generic name is preoccupied by Peltophorus, a genus of grasses, and is consequently replaced by some recent authors by the name Baryxylum. CH
|
Cultivation
- Do you have cultivation info on this plant? Edit this section!
Propagation
- Do you have propagation info on this plant? Edit this section!
Pests and diseases
- Do you have pest and disease info on this plant? Edit this section!
Species
Gallery
If you have a photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add.
photo 1
photo 2
photo 3
References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Peltophorum. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Peltophorum QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
