Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Tecoma capensis

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Jackie Miles.

Open pods. Photographer Gunter Baumann, Malawi

Shrub. Photographers Forest and Kim Starr, Hawaii, USA

Common name

Cape honeysuckle

Family

Bignoniaceae

Where found

Occasionally naturalised. Coastal. Sydney area away from the coast and the Blue Mountains. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced shrub to 3 m high,  scrambling or semi-erect. Leaves opposite each other or in whorls of three, 6.5–14 cm long, compound, with 2–9 leaflets each 1–4 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, tips pointed, margins toothed, surfaces hairless. Flowers orange to scarlet, 50–60 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowering: spring–summer. Seeds winged all round.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tecoma~capensis (accessed 11 September 2020)