Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Bauhinia > Bauhinia variegata

Bauhinia variegata (butterfly tree; purple orchid tree; Mountain Ebony; Poor Man's Orchid; Orchid Tree; Camel's Foot; St. Thomas' Tree; Palo De Orquideas; Variegated Bauhinia; Sabot Boeuf; Pata De Rez; Bois de Boeuf; Bauhinia)

Synonyms: Bauhinia variegata chinensis; Bauhinia variegata var. alboflava; Bauhinia variegata var. purpurascens; Perlebia variegata (homotypic); Phanera variegata (homotypic)
Language: Hindi

Wikipedia Abstract

Phanera variegata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, from southern China, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Common names include orchid tree, camel's foot tree, kachnar and mountain-ebony.
View Wikipedia Record: Bauhinia variegata

Infraspecies

Bauhinia variegata var. candida (White Butterfly Tree) (Attributes)
Bauhinia variegata var. variegata

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  None
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Shade Percentage [1]  80 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Specific Gravity [4]  0.653
Structure [2]  Tree
Usage [2]  The bark is a source of tannins. It is used for dyeing; Wood - used for house construction and making household implements;
Height [2]  39 feet (12 m)
Width [1]  20 feet (6.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 10 Low Temperature: 30 F° (-1.1 C°) → 40 F° (4.4 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 11 Low Temperature: 40 F° (4.4 C°) → 50 F° (10 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
View Plants For A Future Record : Bauhinia variegata

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Mendonça, LB; Anjos, L. 2005. Beija-flores (Aves, Trochilidae) e seus recursos florais em uma área urbana do Sul do Brasil Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 22: 51-59
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 10The Diet of the Capped Langur (Presbytis pileata) in a Moist Deciduous Forest in Bangladesh, Craig B. Stanford, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1991
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0