Gulmohar
ಗುಲ್ಮಹರ್गुलमोहरசெம்மயிற்கொன்றை
Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 15 m
Fabaceae
Also called Flamboyant, Royal Poinciana, Flamboyant Tree, Poinciana, Flame of the Forest
Formerly Caesalpinia regia, Poinciana regia
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. & W. MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 8.6 m to 12 mRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: UF/IFAS 40–40 ft; Wikipedia 5–12 m
- Spread
- 12 m to 18 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS orange, red, yellow; Wikipedia orange, red, white, yellow
- 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)
- German
- Flammenbaum
- Spanish
- Framboyán de Madagascar, Tabachín de Madagascar, Malinche de Madagascar
- Portuguese
- Flamboyant, flamboiã, flamboaiã
- Chinese
- 鳳凰木, 凤凰木
- French
- Flamboyant, Flamboyan
- Hebrew
- צאלון נאה
- Chinese (China)
- 凤凰木
- Finnish
- punaliekkipuu
- Czech
- delonix královská
- Japanese
- ホウオウボク
- Indonesian
- Flamboyan
- Greek
- Φλογόδεντρο, Δηλόνιξ η βασιλική
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Delonix regia (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.