Tabebuia pallida (Lindley) Miers
| Kannada Name : | - |
| Common Name : | Cubban Pink trumpet |
| Family Name : | Bignoniaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Tabebuia pallida |
| Species Type : | Exotic |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | January - February |
| Fruiting Period : | None |
| Origin : | Carribean |
Uses
It is used in traditional medicine in the form of herbal or medicinal tea to manage cancer, fever, and pain. Moreover, extracts from the leaves of T. pallida showed anticancer activity.
Description
Semi-deciduous or small tree, up to 15 m. Leaves 1-5-foliolate, the leaflets elliptic to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, basally rounded, chartaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence a few-flowered terminal panicle, often reduced to one or 2 flowers. Flowers bisexual, pinkish- lavender to almost white, the throat opening yellow, tubular. Fruit a capsule, linear-cylindric, attenuate at both ends, seeds bialate, the wings hyaline-membranaceous, sharply demarcated from the seed body.
