Tabebuia heterophylla
Common Name: White-Cedar, pink trumpet tree, Roble blanco
Family: Bignoniaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: 10a-11
Growth Habit: Tree
Origin: Central America, South America
FISC Category: 2
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1928
IFAS Assessment:
Typically one trunk with no thorns, silvery grey and smooth bark that scales with age. Grows into a broad silhoutte of no drooping branches 20 to 30 ft in height and 15 to 25 in spread. Mostly evergreen leaves, palmately compount with 5 or fewer leaflets. Leaves are pinnate and oblong or elliptic. Leaflets 2-6 inches and leaf blade 6-12 inches. No fall color change and bloom occurs in spring-summer followed by immediate fruiting. Very showy light colored flours in white/grey to pink. Trumpet in shape. Fruit is pod like and elongated between 3 to 12 inches.
Naturally occuring in forests and secondary forests. Can be found on roadsides, abandoned pastures
Timber tree of Puerto Rico
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IFAS, UF. 2019 Tabebuia heterophylla: Pink Trumpet Tree. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ST616 Accessed August 3, 2023.
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