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Clitoria fairchildiana
Also called Butterfly Pea Tree
In Singapore: Orchid Tree, Butterfly Pea Tree, Philippine Pigeonwings (Grown in Singapore)
Clitoria fairchildiana is a fast-growing tropical tree in the pea family, native to Brazil, grown for its large umbrella-shaped canopy and showy pea-like flowers. It needs full sun, warmth, and room to spread.
Clitoria fairchildiana, the sombreiro, is a flowering plant species in the genus Clitoria found in Campina Grande, Brazil.
The rotenoids clitoriacetal, stemonacetal, 6-deoxyclitoriacetal, 11-deoxyclitoriacetal, 9-demethylclitoriacetal and stemonal can be isolated from C. fairchildiana.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clitoria fairchildiana 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.
