Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) Bertero ex A.DC.
Arapamato, Pink Poui, Pink Poui, Pink Tecoma
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Summary
Tabebuia rosea, also called pink poui, Sakura Malaysia and rosy trumpet tree, is a neotropical tree that grows up to 30 m (98 ft) and can reach a diameter at breast height of up to 100 cm (3 ft). The Spanish name roble de sabana, meaning "savannah oak", is widely used in Costa Rica, probably because it often remains in heavily deforested areas and because of the resemblance of its wood to that of oak trees. It is the national tree of El Salvador, where it is called maquilíshuat.
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About the genus · Tabebuia
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Tabebuia consists almost entirely of trees, but a few are often large shrubs. A few species produce timber, but the genus is mostly known for those that are cultivated as flowering trees.
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At a glance
Also known as Bignonia fluviatilis G.Mey.; Couralia rosea (Bertol.) Donn.Sm.; Sparattosperma roseum (Bertol.) Miers; Tabebuia mexicana (Mart. ex DC.) Hemsl.; Tabebuia pentaphylla var. leucoxylon Kuntze and 7 more.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, May to October at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (2.4 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (1218 mm of 1570 mm) falls in May to October. The temperature curve is flat, 2.4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1570 mm a year, wettest September at 240 mm, driest January at 24 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1570 mm a year at the habitat, 1218 mm of it May to October. Wettest month September at 240 mm, driest January at 24 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1081 mm to 3068 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 37 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 19.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 19.7 °C, the absolute minimum 17.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 21.3 °C in January (across the envelope cells 14.9 °C to 24.0 °C), warmest day 30.6 °C in April (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 19.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 24–32 | 29 / 25–33 | 31 / 26–34 | 31 / 27–33 | 30 / 27–33 | 30 / 26–32 | 29 / 26–32 | 29 / 26–32 | 29 / 26–31 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 24–31 |
| Night °C | 21 / 15–24 | 22 / 15–24 | 22 / 17–25 | 23 / 18–25 | 24 / 19–25 | 24 / 19–25 | 23 / 19–25 | 23 / 19–25 | 23 / 19–25 | 23 / 18–25 | 22 / 17–24 | 22 / 16–24 |
| Rain mm | 24 / 6–108 | 25 / 7–108 | 38 / 8–140 | 79 / 16–229 | 168 / 58–341 | 202 / 120–388 | 189 / 109–387 | 210 / 136–402 | 240 / 158–427 | 209 / 110–391 | 131 / 26–281 | 55 / 11–162 |
| DLI | 33 / 25–36 | 35 / 29–39 | 37 / 34–43 | 37 / 32–45 | 34 / 29–43 | 33 / 28–39 | 35 / 29–40 | 34 / 30–39 | 32 / 29–36 | 30 / 27–33 | 28 / 25–33 | 30 / 24–33 |
| RH % | 62 / 54–67 | 61 / 54–66 | 60 / 54–65 | 62 / 55–68 | 65 / 57–70 | 67 / 61–71 | 66 / 60–70 | 66 / 61–71 | 68 / 63–71 | 67 / 62–72 | 66 / 60–71 | 64 / 57–69 |
Each figure is the median across the 590 grid cells holding the 1042 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1647:2037 (7.625, -78.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 19.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 590 distinct grid cells holding the 1042 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1647:2037 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 7.50_-78.125, lapse-corrected +362 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 564 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Juan Cruzado Cortés, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Daniel Patterson, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Eli, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Tabebuia rosea, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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