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Koelreuteria elegans
Also called Chinese Flame Tree, Taiwanese Rain Tree, Flamegold Rain Tree, Golden Rain Tree
Flamegold (Koelreuteria elegans) is a deciduous tree of 15 to 17 metres, with butter-yellow autumn flowers and bladder-like fruit. The subspecies formosana from Taiwan is the one widely grown as a street tree in tropical and subtropical areas.
Koelreuteria elegans, more commonly known as flamegold rain tree, is a deciduous tree 15–17 metres tall. There are currently two subspecies under this taxa, i.e., K. elegans ssp. elegans, which is endemic to Fiji, and K. elegans ssp. formosana, which is endemic to Taiwan. The subspecies formosana, commonly known as Taiwanese golden rain tree, is widely grown throughout the tropics and sub-tropical parts of the world as a street tree.
K. elegans blossoms in autumn. Flowers are small, to 5 mm in diameter, and occur in terminal panicles. The flowers have four to five unequal petals, butter-yellow with red base. The flowers contains eight stamens with hairy filaments, and the ovary is three-celled, red while flowering.
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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.
