Copperpod
பெருங்கொன்றைചരക്കൊന്നताम्रवृक्ष
Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K.Heyne
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Fabaceae
Also called Yellow Flame Tree, Yellow Flame, Peltophorum
Formerly Baryxylum ferrugineum, Baryxylum inerme, Brasilettia ferruginea, Caesalpinia arborea, and 10 more
When it flowers
Flowers March to November 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
- Indo-China to N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, 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 December to February, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers December to February, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers December to February, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers December to February, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers December to February, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers December to February, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Indonesian
- Soga
- Chinese
- 雙翼豆(盾柱木), 盾柱木
- Czech
- peltoforum červenoplodé
- Chinese (China)
- 盾柱木
- Japanese
- コウエンボク
- Thai
- นนทรี
- Russian
- Пелтофорум крылатоплодный
- French
- Flamboyant Jaune
- Danish
- Gult Flammetræ
- root
- સોનમોહર, તામ્રશિંગી
- Spanish
- Flamboyán amarillo
- Filipino
- Siar
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
- 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, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Peltophorum pterocarpum (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.