Trees & Plants

Scarlet-bell tree

Hirunduni

Spathodea campanulata P.

Planted as avenue tree The seeds are edible. Timber is soft and used to make paper and blacksmith’s bellows. The bark and leaves are used in traditional medicine. The wood is resistant to fire and is good for landscaping in fire- prone areas. ets Th reat & damage: It is ranked as

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uses: The seeds are edible. Timber is soft and used to make paper and blacksmith’s bellows. The bark and leaves are used in traditional medicine. The wood is resistant to fire and is good for landscaping in fire- prone areas. ets Th reat & damage: It is ranked as one among the 100 worst invaders in the world. or The tree is capable of smothering other vegetation by its gregarious growth. Management: Pulling out seedlings and young trees is effective. Basal bark or cut- in stump application with herbicides is proved efficient in killing large trees. × 8
family: Bignoniaceae
synonym: Bignonia tulipifera Th onn.
description: Medium-sized trees; bark to smooth. Leaves imparipinnate, opposite; rachis 9-40 cm long, swollen at base; leaflets Th 9-19, opposite; petiolule 3-5 mm long; × lamina 5-12.5 3-7 cm, elliptic-oblong or Th obovate-oblong, base round or oblique, apex acuminate, puberulent beneath, a prominent gland at the base of the lamina on the upper side. Flowers to 8 cm long, bright red, in × terminal racemes. Calyx 5-6 2-2.5 cm, spathaceous, golden velutinous. Corolla tube × 7.5-9 5-6 cm. Stamens subequal, unequally × inserted at the base of the tube. Disc 4 8 mm, shallowly lobed. Fruit a capsule, 15- × 23 3-5 cm, lanceolate-oblong, brownish- black, woody, 2-valved; seeds many, 1.7-2.4 cm across, winged.
native range: West Africa
distribution: Widely planted in the tropics and subtropics Beauv.
english names: Scarlet-bell tree · Fountain tree · African tulip tree
flowering fruiting: October - May
occurrence maldives: Planted as avenue tree