Common name

Yellow Bignonia, Yellow Trumpet Bush, Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder, Ginger-thomas, Yellow Trumpet Flowers

Family

Bignoniaceae

Where found

Forest margins, woodland, grassland, roadsides, agricultural land, and disturbed sites, sand dunes, near streams, on floodplains, and in mangrove habitats. Coast and ranges north of Wollongong..

Notes

Introduced shrub or tree to 10 m high. Leaves sharply toothed. Bark initially smooth, becoming rough and furrowed. Young stems slightly 4-angled in cross section, hairless. Leaves opposite each other, 8–25 cm long, compound, with 3–13 leaflets each 2.5–10 cm long, 8–30 mm wide, tips pointed, margins toothed, surfaces more or less hairless. Flowers bright yellow with reddish lines in the throat, tubular, the tube 30–50 mm long, with 5 lobes 8-30 mm long. Flowers in several-flowered clusters 5–15 cm long. Flowering: mainly spring–summer. Seeds winged all round, the wing at each end of the seed white to transparent and papery.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.

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