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Bignoniaceae
Pink Trumpet Tree
Handroanthus impetiginosus
Resilience, healing, beauty in dryness.
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Genus
- Handroanthus
- Native to
- Mexico, Central and South America
- Bloom season
- Late Winter, Spring
- Type
- Deciduous tropical tree
- Height
- 8–20 m
- Sunlight
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Water
- Low to moderate
- Hardiness
- 9–11
- Lifespan
- Long-lived
Did you know
- The pink trumpet tree blooms while completely leafless — entire trees turn into clouds of magenta against the brown dry-season landscape, one of the most spectacular sights in the neotropical Americas.
- It's the national tree of Paraguay (called 'lapacho rosado') and one of the most important medicinal trees of South American traditional medicine.
- The bark is the source of pau d'arco, an herbal supplement used for centuries by Indigenous peoples and now sold worldwide as an immune-system booster.
- The wood is so dense it sinks in water and is one of the hardest, most rot-resistant timbers in the world — sometimes called 'ironwood'.
- Pink trumpet trees line streets across South America, and Brazil's city of São Paulo is famous for its lapacho-flowering avenues each August.
Color meanings
Pink
Triumphant grace