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Koelreuteria bipinnata
Also called Bougainvillea Golden Rain Tree, Chinese Flame Tree
Koelreuteria bipinnata, also known as Chinese flame tree, Chinese golden rain tree, Bougainvillea golden-rain tree, is a species of Koelreuteria native to southern China. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing between 7–20 metres tall. It is few branched and is one of the few trees that bloom in summer. The tree can live 50 to 150 years.
The tree is native to Southern China; its discovery is credited to Delavay who collected it in Yunnan in 1886.
Koelreuteria bipinnata is commonly used as a focal point in landscape design in regions where they thrive; it is often used as a tree at street, highways, parking lots, for shade, garden or specimen tree. The seeds are used as beads in necklaces and the flowers can yield a yellow dye.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Koelreuteria bipinnata 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.
