Pride of Bolivia
Tipuana tipu (Benth.) Kuntze
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 18 m
- wide
- 18 m
Fabaceae
Also called Rosewood, Tipu, Tipuana, Tipu Tree, Tipa
Formerly Machaerium fertile, Machaerium tipu, Tipuana speciosa
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
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bolivia to S. Brazil and N. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 10 m to 25 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 15 m to 20 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -4 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Amendoim-acácia
- Spanish
- Tipa
- Czech
- tipuana bolívijská
- Chinese (China)
- 金蝶木
- Arabic
- شجرة تيبوانا, تيبوانا تيبو, خشب الورد
- Afrikaans
- Tipoeboom
- Hebrew
- מכנף נאה
- Lithuanian
- Tikroji tipuana
- Chinese
- 金蝶木, 大班木
- Catalan
- Tipuana
- Finnish
- boliviantipuana
- Slovak
- tipuana nádherná
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
- Wikipedia, 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: Tipuana tipu (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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