Tabebuia aurea seeds grow into the silver trumpet tree, tree of gold, or caraiba a small, dry-season-deciduous tree native to the seasonally dry tropical biome of South America, from Peru and Bolivia east through the Brazilian Cerrado and Chaco to Paraguay and northern Argentina. Despite the common name ‘Caribbean trumpet tree’ sometimes applied to it, T. aurea is NOT native to the Caribbean it is a South American species. The palmately compound leaves are covered in striking silvery scales, giving them a silvery-grey sheen diagnostic of the species. Before the new leaves emerge, the bare branches are covered in clusters of vivid golden-yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers. One of the most ornamental of all Tabebuia species, widely planted in tropical and subtropical gardens worldwide. Stays in Tabebuia (not moved to Handroanthus) in current POWO taxonomy. Family Bignoniaceae.
Full sun; drought-tolerant; adaptable to dry, well-drained tropical and subtropical soils; warm conditions.
Tabebuia aurea is the silver trumpet tree a spectacular South American flowering tree of the Cerrado and Chaco whose golden flower display on bare silvery-leaved branches, wide distribution from Peru to Argentina and ornamental beauty have made it one of the most planted tropical ornamental trees worldwide.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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