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Trees with nice pink flowers - bystander - 04-12-2016
Recently I've noticed some trees growing around Pahoa and elsewhere that have blossomed with very pretty pink flowers. They sort of look like cherry blossoms. Does anyone know what kind of tree this is? I wouldn't mind having some of these around my house.
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - leilaniguy - 04-12-2016
Tecomanthe?
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - bystander - 04-12-2016
That plant appears to be a vine. This is a real tree about medium height. I did some quick googling and came up with Tabebuia rosea.
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - leilaniguy - 04-13-2016
Oops, what I meant to say was Tecoma, which is the common name for Tabebuia rosea.
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - bananahead - 04-13-2016
like leilaniguy pointed out, prob the Tabebuia rosea, or a similar pink flower one like Tabebuia heterophylla .. they and the yellow ones are in bloom now here...
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - shockwave rider - 04-13-2016
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Originally posted by bananahead
like leilaniguy pointed out, prob the Tabebuia rosea, or a similar pink flower one like Tabebuia heterophylla .. they and the yellow ones are in bloom now here...
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
I really like them, but the one's I've seen bloom for a very short time. If your yard is small you might want to get something that blooms for a longer period or more than once a year.
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - bystander - 04-14-2016
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Originally posted by bananahead
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
I guess that must be for me. Okay then another plant I like which I know is indigenous has small orange-white intensely fragrant flowers.
I think this is Fagraea berteriana.
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - Carey - 04-15-2016
We do have a peach that is very late blooming this year & has blossoms very much like a cherry...normally this peach is in blossom at the same time or a week earlier than the Waimea Cherry Blossoms Festival...& has pretty good sized fruit by now
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - bananahead - 04-15-2016
Hi bystander, Pua keni keni... meaning '10 Cent Flower' (Fagraea berteriana) is indigenous to Samoa, not Hawaii, but close, ... its been here for many years in gardens thus the Hawaiian name... it is not know to be naturalized here (grow wild).
ps the "save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants..' line at bottom of my posts is on all posts, sorry for confusion, none of the plants, including the Tabebuias, on this post are actually native here.
the closest native plant to Fagraea berteriana, in same family Gentianaceae, is an endangered endemic small (less than 1' tall) annual herb call 'Awiwi (Centaurium sebaeiodes), but is not found on the Big Island, its only been listed in the past to have been known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and WestMaui, and is very rare today.
there are no native plants related to the posts topic, the pink flowered Tabebuia sp., or even in same family, the Bignoniaceae family. But there are a few naturalized slightly invasive non-native trees in same family found here ie the African Tulip Tree (first seen in HI in 1871), Yellow Elder, and the blue flowered tree seen wild in dry hot Kona side called Jacaranda (first seen in HI in 1900)
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
RE: Trees with nice pink flowers - Lodestone - 04-16-2016
quote:You can grow peaches and cherries here? Thought it was too warm.
Originally posted by Carey
We do have a peach that is very late blooming this year & has blossoms very much like a cherry...normally this peach is in blossom at the same time or a week earlier than the Waimea Cherry Blossoms Festival...& has pretty good sized fruit by now