The African Tulip Tree

The African Tulip Tree

Family ; Bignoniaceae

Characteristic Features :

Habit : Evergreen tree up to 25 tall.

Leaves : large, pinnate compound with 9-19 leaflets, latter ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 5-10 cm long, entire, with 2-3 fleshy glands at base, abruptly acuminate.

Flowers : scarlet, 7-10 cm long in many-flowered racemes or panicles; calyx leathery, boat-shaped, 5-8 cm long; corolla lobes ovate, somewhat undulate.

Fruit : flattened, 16-22 cm long.