Golden trumpet tree
Handroanthus chrysotrichus (Mart. ex DC.) Mattos
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 9.9 m
- wide
- 9.1 m
Bignoniaceae
Also called Yellow Pui
Formerly Gelseminum chrysotrichum, Tabebuia chrysotricha, Tecoma chrysotricha, Tecoma flavescens, and 2 more
When it flowers
Flowers July to October 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
- Brazil to NE. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 9.1 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS 25–35 ft; UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions 30–40 ft
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from UF/IFAS and UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: UF/IFAS medium; UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions low
- Flowers
- YellowRead from UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS yellow; UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions yellow; Wikipedia red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: UF/IFAS -1.1 °C; UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions -6.7 °C; Wikipedia -6.7 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers November to June, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers November to June, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers November to June, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers November to June, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers November to June, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers November to June, when this does not
In other languages (7)
- Portuguese
- Ipê-do-morro, Ipê-amarelo, Pau-d'arco-amarelo
- Japanese
- コガネノウゼン, キバナイペー, 黄金凌霄
- Chinese (China)
- 毛黄钟花, 金毛风铃木
- Russian
- Хандроантус золотистоволосый
- Chinese
- 毛風鈴木, 金風鈴木, 金毛风铃木
- Finnish
- aurinkosoihtupuu
- French
- Ipé jaune
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Handroanthus chrysotrichus (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.