Japanese name: モモイロノウゼン（桃色凌霄） Scientific name:Tabebuia rosea
[Overview]
An evergreen tree, but it loses its leaves when temperatures drop.
The leaves are opposite palmately compound, made up of 3–5 leaflets, and have long petioles.
The leaflets have short leaflet stalks and are oblong to elliptic, hairless, glossy on the upper surface, and entire at the margin.
The flowers are borne in inflorescences at the branch tips; they are trumpet-shaped, two-lipped flowers 7–10 cm long, with a shallowly 5-lobed tip.
The flower color is pink to white, with a yellow throat.
The fruit is a slender, pendulous capsule, and the seeds are winged.
[Uses]
The wood is hard and useful.
In its native range, the bark, flowers, leaves and roots are used medicinally.
[Cultivation]
Propagate from seed, cuttings, or layering.
It prefers a sunny, well-drained, fertile site with deep, workable soil.
