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Bauhinia flagelliflora is a small tree from the pea family, known only from the Pichincha region of Ecuador, growing in moist montane forest. It is rarely cultivated, so growing it means treating it like other cool, humid tropical montane trees.
Bauhinia flagelliflora is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bauhinia flagelliflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
