Mazhar Botanic Garden

Bauhinia grevei Drake

Greve's Orchid tree

Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Bauhinia
Species: grevei
Sample code: EGY-MBG-001133
Common name: Greve's Orchid tree
English name: Greve's Orchid tree
Arabic name: خف الجمل جريفي
Native: Madagascar
Country: Madagascar
(PGR): Rare

Deciduous shrub or small tree grows to 2-3 m tall, leaves bilobed, orchid-like flowers bright red with a green and yellow center fruit flat, elliptic, oblong, obovoid, woody or thinly valve

Ornamental. Medicine. Landscape.

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Texture: Clay Fertile Loam Sandy
Fertility: Intermediate
Drainage: Moderately well drained
Topography: Rainforest
Salinity: Low
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Climates: Subtropics Tropical
Lights: Full sun
Propagation: Seeds
Flowering time: Summer
Zone: 9 : 10
pH range: 7.5

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