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Spathodea campanulata
Sign in to saveAlso known as African tulip tree, Nandi flame, African tuliptree
species of plant
Species
Least ConcernAfrican tulip tree
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyBignoniaceae
Especie cultivada y algunas veces naturalizada.
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,289
- With media
- 753
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Collections
- CCBA-FMVZ-UADY, CICY, ENCB-IPN, CIBYC-UAEM, UNICACH, CP
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spathodea
- Image
- Spathodea campanulata 3.jpg
- Has use
- medicinal plant
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Spathodea campanulata
- Commons category
- Spathodea campanulata
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- Spathodea campanulata
- has fruit type
- capsule
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon common name
- afriški tulipanovec
- taxon range
- Gabon
- invasive to
- China
- short name
- S. campanulata
- taxon author citation
- P. Beauv.
- external data available at URL
- www.gbif.org/dataset/31dc1507-a6e1-4233-a8df-c7a78596a7e4
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Encyclopedic overview
Spathodea is a genus in the plant family Bignoniaceae. The single species it contains, Spathodea campanulata, is commonly known as the African tulip tree or the Nandi Flame. The tree grows between 7–25 m (23–82 ft) tall and is native to tropical dry forests of Africa. It has been nominated as among 100 of the "World's Worst" invaders.
This tree is planted extensively as an ornamental tree throughout the tropics and is much appreciated for its very showy reddish-orange or crimson (rarely yellow), campanulate flowers. The generic name comes from the Ancient Greek words σπαθη (spathe) and οιδα (oida), referring to the spathe-like calyx. It was identified by Europeans in 1787 on the Gold Coast of Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spathodea campanulata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.