Family: Bignoniaceae
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Group: Dicot
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Substrate:
					
                                   Terrestrial
					
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Habit:
					
                                    Tree
					 
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Perennation:
					
                                   Perennial
					
                                    
                                    
				
                                     
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
                                    
				
                                    SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
				  
                                    Present
			      
                                    
                                    
		    
                                    
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
					
                                    Not Native, Cultivated Only
	            	
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
					
                                    Cultivated
					
                                    
                                    
	            
                                    
Comments: For an additional 
image, visit the New York Botanical Garden's Ethnobotany and Floristics of Belize website.
                                    
                                    
				
          
            FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
          
				  
						Present
			      
				  
				  
		      
            
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
					
            			Not Native, Cultivated Only
	            	
					
					
				
                                      
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
                                    
				
          Florida Keys History and Distribution: Collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on the island of Key West, but apparently never naturalized in the Florida Keys.  Sparingly cultivated.