Tecoma Species, Esperanza, Ginger-Thomas, Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder, Yellow Trumpetbush (Tecoma stans)

by Monocromatico Feb 4, 2004 9:24 AM

Seedlings

This one was a 5m tall tree

Blooming short tree. Rio de Janeiro, mid summer.

An Orchid Bee visiting Tecoma Stans for a sip of nectar

String bean like capsule seed pods

Tecoma Stans, close up of flowers.

Tecoma Stans, large shrub.

A beauty, long blooming plant. It has been blooming for months, and still is.

It seems every house in our neighborhood has these plants. Some are huge.

Yellow Bells on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia, July 1993

The seed pod opens when mature and the seeds propagate by wind, not great distances.

Yellow Elder first flowers. Grown from cutting.

this plant is in my garden in cairo

Yellow Bells in Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Australia, January 2007

Found growing happily at the Berkeley Botanical Garden.

6 day old seedling of Tecoma stans

December 2007 Charleston, SC

Ginger Thomas is the national flower of the U.S.V.I.

In bloom in my garden march 2008

Yellow Bells near Tampa, FL. It came back from a 28 degree freeze.

November 14, 2006, early Winter, zone 9b

Given to me in a trade a year ago. Lovely plant!

Tecoma stans growing by my front door in Port St. Lucie

Cut off the seeds and it will keep flowering.

Tecoma stans (L.) Kunth ทองอุไร

Originally added to the PlantFiles on July 11, 2004

Paisley Pumpkin Farms Nursery display plant

Flowers and seed pods.

Close up Tecoma Stans

Flowers and seed pods.

Carpenter bees love to bite the flowers to sip nectar

Carpenter bee foraging for nectar - note previous incisions in flower bases

University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

This yellow elder survived a transplant to a sunnier spot and is now much happier. It tends to look scraggly during the winter but the blooms in spring make up for it.

We live in Nebraska. I take the Yellow Elder into the greenhouse every winter and it always rewards me with beautifuls blooms all summer long and into the winter.