RAT KOBOLEELA (Bauhinia variegate)
RAT KOBOLEELA (Bauhinia variegate)
- Brand: Biophilia Concept Shop
- Product Code: BPRB 07
- Availability: Out Of Stock
- Rs. 1,500.00
- Ex Tax: Rs. 1,500.00
Notes: It takes us 7-14 days to process and curate this order.
Semideciduous tree up to 15 m (50 ft) in height, with a spreading crown. Leaves alternate, long petioled (to 3 cm [1.25 in] long), thin-leathery, simple but deeply cleft at apex, forming 2 large rounded lobes; lower surfaces downy, especially at top of petiole; blades with 11-13 veins extending from heart-shaped or rounded base. Flowers showy, fragrant, in few-flowered clusters near stem tips, appearing during leaf fall (early spring); 5 petals, clawed, overlapping, pale magenta to indigo (occasionally white), with dark red and yellow also on upper petal; 5 stamens (rarely 6). Fruit a flat, oblong pod, to 30 cm (1 ft) long, 10-15-seeded.
Displaces native vegetation in hammock margins and occasionally in globally imperiled pine rocklands. Reported now from natural areas in four counties: Pinellas, Lee, Dade, and Palm Beach, including the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park
Care
| Sun | Full Sun |
| Soil | This plant is easily grown in moist, well-drained soils |
| Water | Water the young specimens frequently in summer and the adult plants moderately as they tolerate several days of drought. It is convenient to reduce the watering considerably from the end of autumn so that the plant loses all the leaves and produces an abundant flowering in late winter or early spring |
| Fertilizer | Fertilize in winter with compost or manure and with mineral fertilizer rich in potassium during flowering |
Tags: BPRB 07