{"id":1236882,"date":"2012-03-26T04:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T04:47:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:15:14","slug":"stereospermum-kunthianum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/stereospermum-kunthianum\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereospermum kunthianum (Cultivated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stereospermum<\/i> kunthianum<\/i> Cham.<\/span><\/font><\/a>, Linnaea 7: 720 1832 publ. 1833<\/i>. (Syn: Bignonia<\/i> lanata<\/i> R.Br. ex Fresen.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Dolichandrone<\/i> smithii<\/i> Baker<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> arguezona<\/i> A.Rich.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> arnoldianum<\/i> De Wild.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> cinereoviride<\/i> K.Schum.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> dentatum<\/i> A.Rich.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> integrifolium<\/i> A.Rich.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Stereospermum<\/i> kunthianum<\/i> var.<\/span> dentatum<\/i> (A.Rich.) Fiori<\/span><\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania,
\nNigeria, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, D.R.
\nCongo (Zaire), Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda,
\nMalawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe<\/font> as per Catalogue of Life<\/a>;<\/div>\n
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Request Tree ID 74 – Lalbagh, Bangalore – RA:<\/a> <\/p>\n
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Is it by any chance stereospermum kunthianum<\/i> ?<\/p>\n
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For me this looks like Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i><\/p>\n
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Trees of Lalbagh, Bangalore – Stereospermum kunthianum – Pink Jacaranda Tree:<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i> is a deciduous shrub or tree, 3-15 m high, with a stem diameter of 25 cm; bark thin, grey to grey-black, smooth or flakes off in patches resembling the European plane tree; trunk rarely straight, mostly forked; branches twisted; branching is erect and spreading to form a light, rounded crown. Slash white or light brown.<\/font>\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Leaves imparipinnately compound, 25 cm long, alternate with 2-4 (max. 6) almost opposite pairs of leaflets and 1 terminal leaflet; 5-9 leaflets with short, soft hairs, oblong to oblong elliptic, stiff, 5-8(max. 10) x 3-7.5 cm, green and hairless above and yellow-green with prominent veins under; apex broadly tapering, often abruptly attenuate; base tapering; margin entire, occasionally toothed in coppice growth; petiolules almost absent; petiole up to 7 cm long, caniculate at the top; young leaves sometimes toothed and hairy.\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Flowers precocious, fragrant, bisexual, showy, mauve to off-white, more usually pinkish with red streaks on the lower corolla lobes and produced in large, drooping panicles on long peduncles; corolla with a tube up to 3 cm long and spreading lobes, 3-4 cm in diameter; calyx bell shaped, irregularly 2- to 5-lobed, partially forming 2 lips; stamens 4, enclosed within the corolla tube; ovary linear-oblong, 2-chambered.\u00a0<\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Fruits slender, flat capsules or paired pods up to 45 x 1 cm, cylindrical, greenish-purple, reddish-brown to dark brown, pendulous, spirally twisted, smooth, splitting into 2 valves to release many flat, long, narrow, winged seeds. The remnants of the capsule remain on the tree for months.<\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n
References:\u00a0worldagroforestry<\/a> <\/font><\/div>\n
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Bignoniaceae :: Stereospermum kunthianum, Cham. <=> Pink Jacaranda Tree – Bangalore – RA<\/a>: https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/indiantreepix\/vsdN9ukiAmY<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n
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went to the link. thanks you.
Bolpur: there is one inside the Compound of Gurudev’s homes
But cameras are not allowed in the gate so no pic but its etched in my memory<\/div>\n
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Stereospermum kunthianum, Cham. <=> Pink Jacaranda Tree – Bangalore – RA:<\/a> Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i> is a deciduous shrub or tree, 3-15 m high, with a stem diameter of 25 cm; bark thin, grey to grey-black, smooth or flakes off in patches resembling the European plane tree; trunk rarely straight, mostly forked; branches twisted; branching is erect and spreading to form a light, rounded crown. Slash white or light brown.<\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Leaves imparipinnately compound, 25 cm long, alternate with 2-4 (max. 6) almost opposite pairs of leaflets and 1 terminal leaflet; 5-9 leaflets with short, soft hairs, oblong to oblong elliptic, stiff, 5-8(max. 10) x 3-7.5 cm, green and hairless above and yellow-green with prominent veins under; apex broadly tapering, often abruptly attenuate; base tapering; margin entire, occasionally toothed in coppice growth; petiolules almost absent; petiole up to 7 cm long, caniculate at the top; young leaves sometimes toothed and hairy.\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Flowers precocious, fragrant, bisexual, showy, mauve to off-white, more usually pinkish with red streaks on the lower corolla lobes and produced in large, drooping panicles on long peduncles; corolla with a tube up to 3 cm long and spreading lobes, 3-4 cm in diameter; calyx bell shaped, irregularly 2- to 5-lobed, partially forming 2 lips; stamens 4, enclosed within the corolla tube; ovary linear-oblong, 2-chambered.\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n
Fruits slender, flat capsules or paired pods up to 45 x 1 cm, cylindrical, greenish-purple, reddish-brown to dark brown, pendulous, spirally twisted, smooth, splitting into 2 valves to release many flat, long, narrow, winged seeds. The remnants of the capsule remain on the tree for months<\/font>.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Tree for ID : Pink Flowers : Lalbagh,Bangalore : 020413 : AK-2<\/a> :\u00a0\u00a0Attachments (6). 4 posts by 3 authors.\u00a0<\/div>\n
Saw this tree with pink flowers in Lalbagh, Bangalore on 16\/3\/13.<\/font><\/p>\n
Flowers look like Bignoniaceae<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i>, Cham. <=> Pink Jacaranda Tree<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fwd: MS\/4\/2\/2018 – ID of the tree<\/a> : 5 posts by 1 author. Attachments<\/span> (5)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n

Please ID the tree.\u00a0Photographs taken in a park<\/font> in Mysore<\/font>\u00a0during\u00a0 2015. For me it looks like Stereospermum<\/i> species<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pl. check\u00a0<\/div>\n
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To me appears close.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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On rechecking I consider it as S.kunthianum<\/i>. Pl confirm.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Appears to me Stereospermum<\/i> colais of Bignoniaceae<\/i> family.<\/div>\n
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I checked the comparative images. The photographs do not match the suggested species.\u00a0The flowers are close to\u00a0S<\/i>.kunthianum<\/i>, an African species.\u00a0Could it be<\/font>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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You may be right, …, as per images at Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i> (Cultivated)<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
It has been posted in efi from Lalbagh, Banglore.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fwd: MS\/4\/2\/2018 – ID of the tree<\/a> : 7 posts by 1 author. Attachments<\/span> (5<\/font>)<\/font><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
Please ID the tree.\u00a0Photographs taken in a park in Mysore during 2015.\u00a0For me it looks like Stereospermum<\/i> species.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pl. check\u00a0<\/div>\n
https:\/\/sites.google.<\/font>com\/site\/efloraofindia\/<\/font>species\/a—l\/b\/bignoniaceae\/<\/font>stereospermum\/stereospermum-<\/font>chelonoides<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
To me appears close.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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On rechecking I consider it\u00a0as S.kunthianum<\/i>. Pl confirm.<\/div>\n

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Appears to me Stereospermum colais<\/i> of Bignoniaceae<\/i> family.<\/div>\n
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I checked the comparative images.\u00a0The photographs do not match the suggested species.\u00a0The flowers are close to\u00a0S<\/i>.kunthianum<\/i>, an African species. Could it be<\/font>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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You may be right, …, as per images at Stereospermum kunthianum<\/i> (Cultivated)<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
It has been posted in efi from Lalbagh, Banglore.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Stereospermum kunthianum Cham., Linnaea 7: 720 1832 publ. 1833. (Syn: Bignonia lanata R.Br. ex Fresen.; Dolichandrone smithii Baker; Stereospermum arguezona A.Rich.; Stereospermum arnoldianum De Wild.; Stereospermum cinereoviride K.Schum.; Stereospermum dentatum A.Rich.; Stereospermum integrifolium A.Rich.; Stereospermum kunthianum var. dentatum (A.Rich.) Fiori); Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6685],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1236882","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-stereospermum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1236882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1236882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1236882"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1236882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}