Taiwanese Rain Tree
Koelreuteria elegans (Seem.) A.C.Sm.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 13 m
Sapindaceae
Also called Flamegold rain tree, Flamegold
Formerly Azedarach elegans, Melia elegans
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Taiwan, FijiKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS EDIS, one source
- Height
- 7.6 m to 15 mRead from UF/IFAS EDIS and UF/IFAS Plant Directory, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 11 m to 15 mRead from UF/IFAS EDIS and UF/IFAS Plant Directory, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS EDIS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from UF/IFAS EDIS and UF/IFAS Plant Directory, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from UF/IFAS EDIS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 斐濟欒樹, 優雅欒樹, 苦苓舅
- Chinese (China)
- 秀丽栾
- Portuguese
- Árvore-da-China
- Russian
- Кёльрейтерия изящная
- Hebrew
- פנסית דו-נוצתית
- Simplified Chinese
- 秀丽栾
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS EDIS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS Plant Directory, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Koelreuteria elegans (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.