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Tabebuia cassinoides

Tabebuia cassinoides
Photo: Alex V. Popovkin, CC BY 4.0

Tabebuia cassinoides is a tree of the trumpet-vine family native to southeastern and southern Brazil, where its wood is used for pencils. It is a tree rather than a typical garden plant, and it grows best in warm, seasonally dry tropical conditions.

Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when the top of the soil is dry, then let it dry out somewhat between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or loam-based potting mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. & S. Brazil
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Tabebuia cassinoides (Portuguese common name caixeta) is a tree native to Central and South America. It is used as a timber tree to make pencils.

Other Tabebuia plants

Tabebuia arimaoensis · Silver trumpet tree · Tabebuia bibracteolata · Tabebuia dubia · Tabebuia elliptica · Tabebuia elongata · Pink manjack · Tabebuia hypoleuca · Tabebuia jackiana · Tabebuia maxonii · Tabebuia myrtifolia · Tabebuia ochracea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tabebuia cassinoides 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.

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