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Flowering but else dormant plant by Hannon.


Found in Copenhagen Botanical Garden
with the name Gyrocarpus jacquinii.


Tend to be a little slim by age.


The seeds by Chanin Thorut, Thailand.


Photo by Chanin Thorut, Thailand.


Photo by Chanin Thorut, Thailand.


 Photo by Chanin Thorut, Thailand.

Author: Robert Brown, 1844
Family:  STERCULIACEAE*
Origin:  Andaman Island, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
Soil:  Mix
Water:  Medium - Maximum
Sun:  Medium
Thickness:  60 Centimetres
Height:  15 Meters
Flower:  Red-Orange
Propagate:  Seeds/Cuttings
Names:  Coloured Sterculia, Iwil-iwil, Indian Almond, Po-fai
Synonyms:  Sterculia colorata William Roxburgh, 1795.
Erythropsis colorata
Burkill, 1931.
Clompanus colorata, Kuntze.
Erythropsis roxburghiana, Schott & Endl.
Firmiana rubriflora, Kosterm.
Karaka colorata, Raf.
Sterculia rubicunda, Wall.

This member of the Sterculiaceae* family was given this name by Robert Brown in 1844. It is found in most of southern Asia, growing on limestone or other well drained soil with some to much water and some sun. It will grow to a slim tree with a stem 60 centimetres in diameter and fifteen meters high. The flowers are red-orange.

The genera name  in honour of Joseph von Firmian, 18th century Imperial Governor of Lombardy. The species name means 'coloured'.

*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Sterculiaceae is now part of the Malvaceae.

 This plant have often been sold as Gyrocarpus americanus/jacquinii, but it's leaves are almost flat, and it have no smell.


The early flowers by Hannon.


Photo by Berry Stock of his own plant.


Photo by Berry Stock of his own plant.


Photo by Berry Stock of his own plant.


Photo by Berry Stock of his own plant.


Photo by Chanin Thorut, Thailand.