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Delonix regia
Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant Tree
Origin: Native to Madagascar.
Mike's
Opinion
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One of the more common but yet spectacular trees found throughout the tropical regions where it has become a popular landscape tree, and rightly so.
Michael Pascoe, NDP., ODH., CLT., MSc. (Plant Conservation)
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| Family |
| Fabaceae |
| Genus |
| Delonix |
| Species |
| regia |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Type |
| Tree (deciduous) |
| Height |
| 15 m |
| Spread |
| 10 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| General Description |
| A flat topped, broad spreading tree, covered in a mass of orange blooms, followed by very long, flat, heavy pods. |
| Cultivation |
| Where root growth is restricted the tree will remain smaller. |
| Shape |
| Flat topped but quite broad spreading. |
| Growth |
| Fast |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Grey relatively smooth. |
| Leaf Description |
| Doubly compound, fern-like, light green in colour with very small leaflets. Often deciduous in the winter months. |
| Flower Description |
| Five petaled, orange red with red centres, produced 'en masse', covering the entire tree at peak bloom and emerging before the leaves in the spring. |
| Fruit Description |
| The pods are flat, 4 cm wide and up to 80 cm long, black to brown and containing many large black seeds. They are quite heavy and may persist on the tree for some time, even following leaf drop. |
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