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Cuban pink trumpet

Tabebuia pallida

Also called White Cedar, Cuban Pink Trumpet Tree, White Wood, Whitewood, Trumpet Tree

In Singapore: Cuban Pink Trumpet Tree, Whitewood, White Cedar, Cuban Pink, Trumpet Tree, Pale Tecoma, Pink Tecoma (Grown in Singapore)

Cuban pink trumpet
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0

Tabebuia pallida is a tropical Caribbean tree grown for its showy pink to lilac trumpet flowers. It needs a warm, frost-free climate and full sun, and is rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Bignoniaceae (Trumpet-vine family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then tolerate short dry spells once mature.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Lesser Antilles
Climate
wet tropical

About

Tabebuia pallida is a species of Tabebuia native to the Caribbean (Leeward Islands,

Windward Islands and Puerto Rico).

Other Tabebuia plants

Silver trumpet tree · Pink manjack · Tabebuia ochracea · Pink trumpet-tree · White ipê · Trumpet-tree

[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 Tabebuia pallida 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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