Bauhinia trees — commonly called orchid trees for their flowers or butterfly trees for their leaves — belong to a genus of more than 300 species of flowering plants including trees, vines and shrubs ...

I was given a seedling of an orchid tree. Can you provide me with some information about this plant? — Donald Simon Orchid trees (Bauhinia species and hybrids) are tropical trees native to India and ...

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There are some 200 species of Bauhinia, the genus of showy flowering trees and shrubs commonly known as orchid tree and named for the 16th-and-17th-century Swiss botanist brothers Bauhin. Perhaps the ...

Bauhinia purpurea is commonly called the Orchid tree or Butterfly tree. Here in Guyana and the Caribbean it is also known as Poor man orchid. This small to medium-sized tree is a member of the ...

Q: I lost a huge oak during the storm, and I thought that the Mexican orchid tree would make a lovely replacement. When should I plant it? — L.S., Houston A:Mexican orchid tree (Bauhinia mexicana) is ...

Crape myrtle The "lilac of the South" gets its name from its crinkly, crepelike flowers and from foliage that resembles the true myrtle. Although native to China and Japan, crapes carry on here as if ...

April 25 is International DNA Day, and it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA of Hong Kong's floral emblem, the Hong Kong Orchid Tree Bauhinia x blakeana Dunn. The study, ...

The Anacacho orchid tree (Bauhinia lunarioides) is a lovely small tree that can also be grown as a shrub. It has delicate, bright green leaves and bright white flowers. It is native to the Chihuahuan ...

IF you are a fan of orchids, then you will love orchid trees. Where orchids only flower once a year, the trees flower most of the year. Orchids require special care, but orchid trees are hardy, ...

The best place to see Hong Kong orchid trees bloom is in old Las Palmas, but they’re scattered all over town, too. Perhaps this enclave is the ideal climate for these exotic trees that have long ...