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Tecoma stans (trumpetbush; trumpetflower; yellow elder; yellow trumpet-flower; yellow trumpetbush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger-thomas. Tecoma stans is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands and the floral emblem of the Bahamas.
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Infraspecies

Stenolobium stans var. stans
Tecoma stans var. sambucifolia
Tecoma stans var. stans
Tecoma stans var. velutina

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Tecoma stans

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Indeterminate
Drought Tolerance [2]  High
Fire Tolerance [2]  Medium
Frost Free Days [2]  6 months 20 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Fall
Growth Form [2]  Multiple Stem
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Leaf Type [3]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Propagation [2]  Bare Root, Container, Cutting, Seed
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  None
Seed Vigor [2]  High
Seeds Per [2]  100000 / lb (220462 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Specific Gravity [4]  0.47
Structure [3]  Tree
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Flower Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [2]  Yes
Height [2]  20 feet (6.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 8 Low Temperature: 10 F° (-12.2 C°) → 20 F° (-6.7 C°)
Light Preference [2]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Water Use [2]  Low

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Canaveral National Seashore II 9090 Florida, United States
El Rey National Park II 110298 Salta, Argentina
Jornada Biosphere Reserve Ib 30913 New Mexico, United States
Reserva Biológica Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve Ia 6552 Costa Rica  

Emblem of

Bahamas
Virgin Islands, U.S.

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Notes on Feeding and Breeding Habits of the Purple Sunbird Nectarinia asiatica (Cinnyris asiaticus) in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Southern Iran, TAHER GHADIRIAN, ALI T. QASHQAEI & MOHSEN DADRAS, Podoces, 2007, 2(2): 122–126
♦ 7FEEDING ECOLOGY AND STATUS OF THE VARIABLE SUNBIRD (Cinnyris venusta) IN THE ARBORETUM OF RUHANDE, Marie Jeanne UWIHOREYE, Bachelor’s Memoir, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA, 2011
♦ 8Hummingbirds and the plants they visit in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido, S. Anaid Díaz, Oscar I. Valle-Díaz and Ana D. Fisher, Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83: 152-163, 2012
♦ 9HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 10Jorrit 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.
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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