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Stereospermum colais
About
Stereospermum colais, the yellow snake tree, is 15–20 m tall, trunk 15–25 cm in diam, large leaves 25–50 cm; leaflets 3–6 on each side of midrib, long elliptic, 8-14 X 2.5–6 cm. Large, pale yellow, trumpet shaped flowers occur in panicles. Flowers are pale yellow, slightly curved, about 2 cm, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, tomentose at mouth, tube terete. The fruit is long, 4-angular, slightly curved, 30–70 cm, about 1 cm in diameter. This, probably, is the source of its common name, snake tree.
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Stereospermum colais
- Slug
- stereospermum-colais
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Genus
- Stereospermum
- Species
- colais
- Wikidata QID
- Q260275
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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