Peacock flower
ರತ್ನಗಂಧಿமயில் கொன்றைദശമന്താരം
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 3.8 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Fabaceae
Also called Red bird-of-paradise bush, Dwarf poinciana, Pride of Barbados, Barbados Pride, Bird-Of-Paradise Flower
Formerly Caesalpinia hispida, Poinciana alata, Poinciana hispida, Poinciana pulcherrima, and 1 more
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.
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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
- SE. Mexico to C. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 4.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–20 ft; Wikipedia 3–3 m
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, red, yellow; Wikipedia orange, pink, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Chacaloxóchitl, bandaa-yu, sirindanicua
- Hawaiian
- ʻohai aliʻi
- German
- Pfauenstrauch, Stolz von Barbados
- Spanish
- Bigotillo, Flor de San Francisco, Flor de camarón
- myn
- chak-muk
- Indonesian
- Bunga Merak
- Chinese
- 紅蝴蝶, 黃蝴蝶, 南蛇簕
- French
- Petit flamboyant, orgueil de Chine, Flamboyant
- Portuguese
- Flor-de-Pavão, Flamboyanzinho, asa-de-barata
- Finnish
- riikinkukkokesalpinia, Riikinkukkokesalpinia
- Japanese
- オウコチョウ, オオゴチョウ, オウゴチョウ
- Chinese (China)
- 洋金凤, 金凤花
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Caesalpinia pulcherrima (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.