#781 most planted
Bauhinia purpurea
Orchid tree · also Purple bauhinia, Camel's foot, Butterfly tree
478
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
6.1 in
median trunk (15 cm, 434 measured)
29 yr
median age (45% have a planting date)
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Bauhinia purpurea is a flowering plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar. It is commonly known as orchid tree, purple bauhinia, camel's foot, or butterfly tree. This species is widely introduced elsewhere in tropical and subtropical areas of the world.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 2650.16%—7.4 in
- 2130.05%29 yr4.5 in
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Queensland tropical rain forests
- Andaman Islands rain forests
- East Deccan moist deciduous forests
- Myanmar coastal rain forests
- Nicobar Islands rain forests
- Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests
- Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests
- Northern Triangle subtropical forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
- Lesser Sundas deciduous forests
- Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
- East Deccan dry-evergreen forests
- Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests
- Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests
- Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests
Other Bauhinia in the catalogue
5 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
