Orchid tree
कचनारசெம்மந்தாரைകോവിദാരം
Bauhinia variegata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 9.1 m
- wide
- 9.1 m
Fabaceae
Also called Camel's foot tree, Mountain ebony
Formerly Perlebia variegata, Phanera variegata
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian Subcontinent to China (S. Yunnan)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 12 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Pata asiática de vaca, Orquídea de pobre
- German
- Orchideenbaum
- Chinese
- 宮粉羊蹄甲, 羊蹄甲, 洋紫荆
- Portuguese
- Casco-de-vaca-lilás
- Finnish
- kirjobauhinia
- Chinese (China)
- 洋紫荆, 宮粉羊蹄甲, 红花紫荆
- Czech
- bauhinie pestrá
- Arabic
- شجرة قدم الجمل, شجرة الأوركيد
- Japanese
- ソシンカ, フイリソシンカ
- Afrikaans
- Orgideeboom
- Russian
- Баугиния пёстрая
- Hebrew
- בוהיניה מגוונת
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Bauhinia variegata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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