Comments on: More flowering trees

By: Charlotte Rose

Charlotte Rose — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:38:16 +0000

The purple tree is The Orchid tree
Yellow tree is the Golden Medallion or Cassia tree
The white tree/shrub is White Oleander
Oleander comes in White, light pink, and a dark fuchsia pink.
Other stunning flowering trees for Florida growers are the:
Scarlet/ orange Flamboyant tree
White, Pink, or Yellow Mimosa
Those also sport fern like leaves like the Golden medallion tree

Also there’s the lovely giant and very fast growing purple flowering Princess/Queen tree, or Princess/Queen Paulownia tree. All names are proper. It grows up to 15 feet annually reaching 50 or more feet high at maturity, and has leaves more than a foot across, in the spring/early summer it blooms in large clusters of purple trumpet shaped flowers.

By: Hilton Kean Jones

Hilton Kean Jones — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:37:31 +0000

Thanks, Michael. I think I’ve heard of that term, cassia, before. I’ll go back and look at the truck on the purple tree to see if there’s spikes.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:34:21 +0000

The purple tree is a jacaranda or purple silk floss. If the trunk has spikes then it’s a silk floss. If not, then jacaranda. The yellow is cassia, white is oleander .

By: Mariano Corral

Mariano Corral — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:23:23 +0000

The yellow flowering tree is not a Cassia but a Tabebuia carabia.

By: nancy

nancy — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:26:29 +0000

the purple trees are called jacaranda

By: Hilton Kean Jones

Hilton Kean Jones — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:08:47 +0000

OK, thank you! I’m going to go back to that particular tree and get a good closeup up of the bark and leaves. Also, I’ve got several other, and much better, pictures of yet another purple three that’s everywhere right now that has fern-like leaves. Absolutely beautiful. I will get some good closeups of the bark and leaves of those too. I’ll publish those on Wednesday. Maybe we can all take a look and see what they might be. Thanks for reading, Shellie.

By: shellie

shellie — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:36:31 +0000

i dont agree about the redbud, the bark of a redbud is greyer and the flowers smaller and more intense like a pink/purple mix color the flowers come first and then the leaves are out in bright almost lime green until later in the summer and the arent soo yellow green

By: Kathie

Kathie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:38 +0000

The yellow flowering tree is a Cassia, I believe, [not sure on the spelling]

By: Hilton Kean Jones

Hilton Kean Jones — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:12:53 +0000

One of our readers wrote me directly with her suggestions as to the identity of the flowering trees in this post. She believes the purple one is the Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis). I believe she's absolutely correct based on comparing extreme closeups of the leaves and flower with the examples at http://www.naturehills.com/product/eastern_redbud.aspx. She also identified the white flowering tree as oleander (Nerium oleander) and, again, after comparing closeups with a reference page (http://www.floridata.com/ref/N/nerium.cfm), I think she's absolutely correct. Thanks Elaine! Any ideas about the yellow flowering tree anyone? Notice all the flowers on the ground around its base. Some folks object to flowering trees because of the "mess" (as they'd call it) they make on the ground. I think that adds to their beauty...but then I don't have to clean it up.