Flame Tree, Flame-of-the-forest, Royal Poinciana, Flamboyan
Delonix regia · Fabaceae · 불꽃나무
Look
- Leaves
- Twice-pinnately compound leaves (20-60 cm) with 9-25 pairs of pinnae, each with 14-30 pairs of leaflets 8-10 mm long and 3-4 mm wide, giving a delicate, lace-like texture.
- Flowers
- Bright scarlet to orange flowers (10-13 cm across); of the five petals, one is a white to pale pink standard with red streaks. Flowers in March-May.
- Fruit
- Pods are green and flexible at first, then ripen woody, reddish brown to black, 30-75 cm long and 5-8 cm wide, gently curved. Inside are 20-45 hard, flat, oblong seeds 2 cm long.
- Bark
- Bark is gray and smooth; the trunk is short with well-developed buttress roots. The branches are weak and break easily in wind.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Endemic to Madagascar, native to monsoon forest.