Yellow bells
ಗಂಟೆ ಹೂதங்க அரளிസുബ്രഹ്മണ്യകിരീടം
Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 3.5 m
Bignoniaceae
Also called Yellow trumpet flower, Esperanza, Tecoma, Yellow elder, Yellow trumpetflower
Formerly Bignonia stans, Gelseminum stans, Stenolobium stans
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
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, 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: NC State Extension medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- guia-biche, lipa-gundo-flei, trompetilla
- myn
- k'an-lol
- Spanish
- timboco, vainillo, guarán amarillo
- Chinese
- 黃鐘花
- Portuguese
- Ipê-de-jardim
- French
- Trompette d'or, Bois pissenlit
- Finnish
- keltatekoma
- Czech
- tekoma vzpřímená
- German
- Gelbe Trompetenblume
- Chinese (China)
- 黄钟树
- Sinhala
- කැළණිතිස්ස
- Hebrew
- דק-פרי זקוף
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, CC BY
- 3D model: Tecoma stans (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.