Bernieh's Garden
Bauhinia or White Orchid Tree
Genus: Bauhinia.
Species: Bauhinia variegata.
Common name: Bauhinia or White Orchid Tree
Botanic name: Bauhinia Variegate 'Alba'
Family: Fabaceae / Caesalpiniaceae
This is a medium sized tree to 8 m tall - considered a weed in some areas of the country. The tree has a short trunk and spreading branches. It is deciduous to semi-deciduous, leaves lobed and divided to about halfway. Pods 15-25 cm long, explosively dehiscent.
It gets abundant large fragrant white flowers with lemon-green markings that appear in winter-spring and intermittently in summer, flowering on leafless branches.
