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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 11:29PM | Share Article 
A lot of plants are named after their similarity with another object. Some are imagined like Dionaea muscipula and some are real like Caryota mitis and this post's featured plant Tecoma stans. Tecoma stans is also popularly known as the yellow trumpetbush or trumpetflower.
It was named after the trumpet due to the similarity of the appearance of its flowers. The trumpet is a musical intrument that produces one of the loudest sounds. It's so loud that it can pierce your ear. The trumpet stands out in the company of other musical intruments like in the case of an orchestra or a drum and bugle corps.
The trumpetflower is becoming a popular plant in landscaping due to its flamboyant display of bright yellow flowers not to mention its low maintenance requirements. It tolerates poor soil and drought. It thrives without feeding. One thing that it loves is sunlight. It should be exposed to full sun in order for it to flower well.
It is considered as a weed in Australia and what a lovely weed it is. I do not mind this weed at all.
Look at my trumpetflower. Can you see the similarity? And when it flowers, it's colors are just as loud.
Reader Comments (15)
Beautiful flowers that brighten the landscape? Drought tolerant, low maintenance, no need to feed? That's my kind of weed!
very nice, yellow flowers! true, those are sun-loving and easy to grow, I see several of those along the roadside and I find them very attractive!
very nice, yellow flowers! true, those are sun-loving and easy to grow, I see several of those along the roadside and I find them very attractive!
It really is funny what plants in other countries are considered weeds. Duranta erecta is like that in Florida I think. Up here it is a prized house plant.
@Deb and Donna: If only all weeds were like this.
@Hardinars: I completely agree. I saw one that was trained and trimmed to look like a giant lollipop (for lack of better description) and it looked amazing.
I love trumpet vines! They are indeed very showy flowers and in the States the humming birds really like them. They get lost in the bloom and you will see the bloom shaking when the hummer is in it!
Beautiful images of these trumpet flowers.
Very pretty 'trumpets', my friend...
@ Karin: I didn't know about the hummingbirds. Their Old World counterpart are sunbirds but they seem to prefer my coral tree to my trumpet vine.
@ Kala: Thanks.
@ Lrong: Lovely to look at. Now I just need some music playing in the background. Maybe some Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie.
Thrives without feeding, tolerates poor soil and drought... behaves like a weed indeed. But this is a beautiful weed. We have another kind of trumpet-like plant, the Angel's trumpet but they are struggling to survive, maybe not suited to our place.
Datura? I tried growing from seed but I'm not yet sure if I'll be successful. I know some people who've been successful growing it locally.
Hi Bom,
This is a great plant and a native to Texas. I see some in bloom continously here all summer long. It is not happy with temperatures below 25 degrees, though a light freeze does not bother it. They can become small trees very quickly. Enjoy the noise. :-) David/
lovely flowers indeed. They flower profusely. It grows wild in this part of India. We have to cut it all the time.I use the leaves for compost.
Datura is another but I was referring to the Brugmansia.
That's true! The similarity is really amazing!