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Botanical Family · Lamiales

Bignoniaceae

Trumpet vine family

36 speciesOrder Lamiales8+ well-known plants

A family of trees, shrubs, and climbers famous for their spectacular trumpet-shaped flowers. Includes the Jacaranda (purple bloom), Spathodea (African tulip), Tecoma, and Catalpa. Many are valued ornamental street trees; most are tropical or subtropical.

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Representative BIGNONIACEAE specimen
Representative specimen · Bignoniaceae
Key pattern

Opposite, often compound leaves, with climbing members frequently ending a leaf in a tendril or clinging pad; large bilaterally symmetrical, trumpet-shaped flowers fuse their petals into a broad tube, ripening into a long slender capsule packed with papery winged seeds.

Many members are woody lianas that climb using modified leaflets rather than true tendrils; the deep-tubed, nectar-rich flowers are strongly adapted for bee, moth, or bird pollination.

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Which Bignoniaceae species is this?

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Flower ColorWhat color are the flowers?
Orange
Pink
Purple
Red
White
Yellow
HabitWhat is the plant's growth form?
Climbing vine
Shrub
Tree
Vine/climber
Fruit TypeWhat does the fruit look like?
Capsule
Long cylindrical pod
Leaf TypeHow is the leaf divided?
Pinnately compound
Simple
HabitWhat is the plant's growth form?
Shrub
Tree
Leaf TypeHow is the leaf divided?
Bipinnately compound
Not sure / other
Pinnately compound
Simple
Trifoliate
Leaf TypeHow is the leaf divided?
Bipinnate/fern-like
Pinnately compound
Simple
Trifoliate
Fruit TypeWhat does the fruit look like?
Capsule
Long cylindrical pod
Not sure / other
HabitWhat is the plant's growth form?
Climbing vine
Shrub
Tree

How to recognise the Bignoniaceae family

  • 01

    Large showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers

  • 02

    Opposite pinnate or palmate leaves

  • 03

    Long capsule fruit; winged seeds

Typical leaf characters

Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.

Typical flower & fruit

Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.

Notable members

Chinese Trumpet CreeperCampsis grandifloraChinese Trumpet VineCampsis radicansLavender Trumpet VineClytostoma callistegioidesKalebas, HuingoCrescentia cujeteCat's ClawDolichandra unguis-catiSpathe Trumpet TreeDolichandrone atrovirensMedhshingiDolichandrone falcata var. falcataGolden Trumpet-TreeHandroanthus chrysanthus subsp. meridionalis

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