Common varieties of Bauhinia

Bauhinia leucophylla

White Bauhinia is a variant of Bauhinia with white flowers.

A shrub that grows in clusters or solitary, 2-5 meters high; bark and twigs are grayish white.

The leaves are papery, nearly round or triangular-round, usually glabrous on both sides, young leaves are green, and only the petioles are slightly purple.

Bauhinia grandiflora

Giant Bauhinia is a deciduous tree or large tree. The average plant can grow up to 30 meters. It is an excellent native tree species with great ornamental value discovered in recent years.

The leaves of Bauhinia giant are alternate, entire, heart-shaped or nearly round, with branches that are soft and drooping, dense and flowing. The calyx is purple-red and shaped like a purple butterfly, with flowers blooming before leaves.

The flowers are viewed in spring, the inflorescence is large and dense, and the colors are bright.

The leaves are dense, heart-shaped, round and shiny in summer.

When viewing the fruits in autumn, you will see large pods, which are green when they first appear, and reddish brown when ripe. They are flat and long, with slightly pointed ends.

When viewed in winter, the fallen leaves are more luxuriant, the trunk is upright, the bark is agate gray, and the branches are swaying.

Cercis tuftilis

Clustered Bauhinia is a cluster of Bauhinia, which can reach a height of more than 4 meters, with a crown width of 100-300 cm and generally 5-10 branches.

Canadian Redbud

The plant is about 4-5 meters tall, and the branches are black-gray with light-colored lenticels.

The new leaves are purple-red, and the old leaves are copper-brown in the summer in a sunny environment. If there is insufficient light, they will turn green-brown, and turn red in autumn. The back of the leaves is light pink.

The flowers bloom before the leaves, and 4 to 10 flowers are clustered in short racemes. The flowers can bloom on old trunks, new branches, and short branches. The corolla is butterfly-shaped and rose-red. The flowering period is April.

The pods are linear and flat, and turn reddish-brown when mature in August or September. They contain nearly round seeds, but the fruiting rate after flowering is not high.

The flower stalks of Canada red-leaf redbud are long and the flowers are sparse. Unlike the common redbud, which are densely packed in clusters and bloom close to the trunk, the flowers are slightly drooping and bloom in a sparse and dense manner.