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Petite flamboyant bauhinia

Bauhinia multinervia

Also called Mountain Ebony

Petite flamboyant bauhinia
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Lesser Antilles to N. South America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Bauhinia multinervia, commonly known as the petite flamboyant bauhinia, is a species of tree in the genus Bauhinia. It grows in the wet tropical biome and is native to Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. In Puerto Rico, it is an introduced species.

Other Bauhinia plants

Dwarf White Bauhinia · Bauhinia augusti · Kei Bauhinia · Bauhinia divaricata · Bauhinia flagelliflora · Cow's-foot · African plume · Bauhinia haughtii · Bauhinia integerrima · Texasplume · Bagnaky · Bauhinia mombassae

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bauhinia multinervia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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