{"id":9063,"date":"2016-09-18T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9063"},"modified":"2016-09-11T21:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T01:12:54","slug":"uniquely-different-chinese-flame-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/09\/18\/uniquely-different-chinese-flame-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniquely Different Chinese Flame Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese Flame tree in Bristol, VA in early October<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pink lantern capsules<\/p><\/div>\n

Chinese flame tree,\u00a0aka bougainvillea goldenrain tree (K. bipinnata<\/em>), is another tree option in U.S. southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 7-10). It is closely\u00a0related to\u00a0the more widely planted goldenrain tree (Koelruteria paniculata<\/em>).<\/em>\u00a0This fast growing tree develops into\u00a0a nice 20-40 feet tall medium-size tree with an irregular canopy.<\/p>\n

Chinese flame tree is highly drought\u00a0tolerant (after one year\u00a0established). It grows in average soil, and leaves holds up in urban air pollution. No serious disease or pests trouble the tree\u00a0and deer leave it alone. Showy long panicles of fragrant yellow flowers appear in summer, one of a very few trees that do so. By mid-September attractive rose-colored seed capsules, mimicking bougainvillea flowers, have matured. They\u2019re often added in\u00a0dry flower arrangements.<\/p>\n

Flame tree\u00a0is easily distinguished from more popular Golden raintree (K. paniculata<\/em>) since the former is\u00a0more upright branched and has 2x\u00a0pinnately compound leaves, compared to the\u00a0single pinnate compound leaves of goldenrain tree Leaves hold late into autumn and turn a blah golden color before abscising. The bark on Chinese Flame tree is smooth and light brown when young, and becomes ridged and furrowed as it\u00a0ages.<\/p>\n

In deep South landscapes, flame tree is\u00a0more multi-stemmed and\u00a0reaches a height of 40 feet and\u00a0higher as a specimen lawn tree. It is frequently seen planted in parking lots and highway plantings because of its landscape versatility.<\/p>\n

Beware<\/strong> that seedlings from both Koelreuteria spp.<\/em>\u00a0will appear anywhere and everywhere in your landscape and all your neighbors\u2019 yards. Pods and stems will fall over the winter. Flametree are for sale at on-line specialty nurseries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese flame tree,\u00a0aka bougainvillea goldenrain tree (K. bipinnata), is another tree option in U.S. southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 7-10). It is closely\u00a0related to\u00a0the more widely planted goldenrain tree (Koelruteria paniculata).\u00a0This fast growing tree develops into\u00a0a nice 20-40 feet tall medium-size tree with an irregular canopy. Chinese flame tree is highly drought\u00a0tolerant (after one year\u00a0established). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1319,778,645,674,806,1115,1343,1324,1012,695,1154,866,1263,791,1059,729,630,706,646,7,113,455,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9068,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9063\/revisions\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}