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Tabebuia?

bubba

By bubba
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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bubba Grand Master

bubba

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These are going off here all over the place. I am not sure the variety:

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I think this constitutes a heavy bloomer.

What you look for is what is looking

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

Eric in Orlando

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Tabebuia aurea, formerly T. argentea and T. caraiba

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

bahia Community Regular

bahia

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Anyone successfully growing/blooming this Tabebuia aurea in southern California? I remember trying this out after seeing it in Miami one spring, and bringing a small one gallon tree home from a nursery in Key West. I managed to keep it alive for about 3 years, but it hardly grew at all, and finally I threw it out as not worth messing with. I suspect that it just didn't like our winters here in the San Francisco Bay Area, although it never got any actual frost damage from the occasional 29/30F temps it was exposed to. I bet it needs warmer winter days as well as milder nights to grow well, but maybe somewhere in southern California it is being grown? A gorgeous tree, with interesting form and foliage as well, but I understand that it is very subject to blow down in high winds.

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Definitely!

There are many species of Tabs, which includes T. chysostoricha, which does well here, and which has just finished its blooming season.

Truly spectacular!

And, T. ipe . . .. wanna scream!

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bahia Community Regular

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Dave,

We have the more common Tabebuia species such as T. chrysotricha and T. impetiginosa growing up here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they bloom just fine, if not quite with the same degree of abundance of flowers near the coast, where we lack the warmth and early spring warm ups they prefer. What I was really asking was whether T. aurea(formerly T. argentea) is also seen in southern California... The T. chrysotricha and T. impetiginosa really ought to be used more here in inland SF Bay Area locations, as they are just drop dead gorgeous when they bloom at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, where they proved their hardiness by surviving the extreme cold of winter of 1990 with temps down to 14F at the garden.

Geoff Mentor

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Here is a Tabebuia chrysotricha in the Los Angeles arboretum

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Geoff Mentor

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and here is a Tabebuia impetiginosa at the same arboretum

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bubba Grand Master

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These have already bloomed this year

What you look for is what is looking

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