We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website | It grows rapidly to 20 metres high and 10 metres wide, and has an umbrella-like crown with fuzzy, rusty-red twigs |
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Bold, yellow, nocturnally fragrant flowers, with crinkled petals, each with a brown spot, are borne on spectacular, upright racemes about 45 cm long, blanketing the tops of trees | Care should be taken not to plant it too close to structures and hard paving, since the trees have shallow root systems |
pterocarpum requires light shade to full sun, and cannot tolerate heavy frost.
Yellow Poinciana is an excellent shade, street tree and a specimen tree, if plenty of space is available | |
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It needs regular pruning, when young, to keep the tree dense and in shape | Being drought-resistant, irrigation requirements are moderate |
Propagation is by seed, which needs to be scarified.