Tabebuia heterophylla

Common Name: White-Cedar, pink trumpet tree, Roble blanco

Family: Bignoniaceae

Common Synonyms: none

USDA Hardiness Zone: 10a-11

Growth Habit: Tree

Origin: Central America, South America

FISC Category: 2

FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No

Introduction Date: Earliest Florida specimen vouchered in 1928

IFAS Assessment:

• North: OK
• Central: OK
• South: OK

Description

Typically one trunk with no thorns, silvery grey and smooth bark that scales with age. Grows into a broad silhoutte of no drooping branches 20 to 30 ft in height and 15 to 25 in spread. Mostly evergreen leaves, palmately compount with 5 or fewer leaflets. Leaves are pinnate and oblong or elliptic. Leaflets 2-6 inches and leaf blade 6-12 inches. No fall color change and bloom occurs in spring-summer followed by immediate fruiting. Very showy light colored flours in white/grey to pink. Trumpet in shape. Fruit is pod like and elongated between 3 to 12 inches.

Habitat

Naturally occuring in forests and secondary forests. Can be found on roadsides, abandoned pastures

Comments

Timber tree of Puerto Rico

Control Methods

• Manual: NA
• Chemical: NA
• Biological: NA

Control Notes

NA

References

IFAS, UF. 2019 Tabebuia heterophylla: Pink Trumpet Tree. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ST616 Accessed August 3, 2023.

Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2023. Atlas of Florida Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/). [S. M. Landry and K. N. Campbell (application development), USF Water Institute.] Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Little, Elbert L. Jr., Wadsworth, Frank H. Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 4th Ed. Ozark, Missouri: Dogwood Printing, 1995.