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Lysiphyllum hookeri
Also called Hooker's Bauhinia, Hooker’s Bauhinia, Pegunny, Queensland Ebony, White Flowered Bauhinia, Mountain Ebony, White Flower Bauhinia
White Bauhinia is a small tree from northern and northeastern Australia, grown for its showy, scented white flowers and butterfly-shaped leaves. It is drought tolerant once established and needs a warm, frost-free site.
Lysiphyllum hookeri is a species of small tree endemic to Queensland, Australia, of the legume plant family Fabaceae. These trees are known by a variety of common names, including pegunny, alibangbang, Hooker's bauhinia, white bauhinia, mountain ebony and Queensland ebony.
These trees grow naturally in monsoon forest, littoral rainforest and occasionally in more open forest types in north-eastern Australia. It has also been widely cultivated throughout Australia and the pacific region as a drought-tolerant ornamental plant.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lysiphyllum hookeri 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.
