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Bauhinia divaricata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Propagation

A.C.K.S.

Common Names

• Pié de Cabirà (Mexico)
• Bois de Caleçon (Haiti)
• Collègue Matouri (Haiti)
• Matourin (Haiti)
• Petit-caleçon (Haiti)
• Pata de Chivo (Dominican Republic)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Cayman Islands
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Sinaloa
• Tamaulipas - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• St Kitts-Nevis
• California
• Texas
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• secondary forest ; SAFIO

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• May

Vine, shrub or tree to 5m with hirsute branches. 2-lobed leaves glabrous or pubescent above, glabrous or brown-tomentose beneath 90mm long. Terminal paniculate hirsute racemes of yellow or white flowers aging pink, tomentose calyx to 20mm long, clawed white or purple glabrous petals 20mm long. Fruit a glabrous or puberulent beaked green maturing brown pod 120mm x 18mm.

Further References

• NYBG
• Neotrop
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• Botanicus
• NAF
• ILDIS
• Gleason & Moldenke
• SAFIO