Wikimedia Commons
Fabaceae
Rose of Venezuela
Brownea grandiceps
Tropical magnificence.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Brownea
- Native to
- Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- tree
- Height
- 15-30 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- moist, well-drained, fertile
- Water
- high
- Hardiness
- 10-12
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Brownea grandiceps produces enormous globular flower heads up to 12 inches across, packed with hundreds of scarlet blooms.
- New leaves emerge drooping and pale pink, resembling wilted fabric, before hardening and turning green.
- It belongs to the legume family despite looking nothing like a typical legume flower.
- The genus is named after Patrick Browne, an 18th-century Irish physician and botanist who studied Caribbean flora.
- In its native Venezuela it is called 'palo de cruz' (cross tree) due to the cruciform arrangement of its leaflets.
Color meanings
0
magnificence
1
pride
2
tropical beauty