Pride of Barbados

[Mangosteen]

Any one growing Caesalpinia pulcherrima?

Edited September 14, 2020 by Mangosteen

[Johnk9]

I have most of the colors here in south west florida

Edited September 14, 2020 by Johnk9

[Silas_Sancona]

Very common here in the desert, as referenced to in the "Red Bird Season" Thread for obvious reasons..  Noticed, while they love heat, even these have a tolerance limit.. When we started down the 53 day stretch above 110F ..more so after a few days above 114F, flowers were burned off most specimens here/ foliage started looking a bit "tired". W/ the heat backing off/nights cooling, noticing the same plants back in full bloom again and looking good. No seeds on any though.

Even though they stayed in all day shade under my patio, lost remaining seedlings that had hung on thru this summer's heat of the light yellow/ white-ish yellow flowered var.   Don't think this one is as tolerant of our heat as some of the other forms/ standard form.

Regardless, great plant.. and can't beat them for fairly trouble free color over a long season. Look really good paired w/ stuff like Little Leaf Cordia, some of the more manageable Texas Sage varieties, or Torch Glow Bougainvillea ..which are also heavy on bursts of color throughout the warm season in drier areas. 


Always nice to see pictures of these being used in landscapes/ grown in gardens across a wider area of California..

Finding myself appreciating it's not - quite - as - flamboyant half - sister lately as well..




Find it odd that both look very closely related, but were re-assigned to different Genus not long ago. C. pulcherrima is still considered part of Caesalpinia, while C. gilliesii was re-assigned to the Genus Erythrostemmon.    ...Gotta love taxonomists sometimes..

[jimmyt]

Does anyone have a “white-flowered version of BOP blooming?  I have “read” that there is a white strain too.  Curious......

[greysrigging]

Very common in the older Darwin gardens.... so common in fact I think its the reason they've fallen out of favour somewhat in the present day gardening world.
Easy to grow, bulletproof, don't really need any special care in our climate.