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Hainan China Doll
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Hainan China Doll
P Introduced Photo: Nidhan Singh
Common name: Hainan China Doll
Botanical name: Radermachera hainanensis    Family: Bignoniaceae (Jacaranda family)
Synonyms: Radermachera grandiflora, Radermachera pierrei

Hainan China Doll is a tree 6-13 m tall, becoming hairless, mostly cultivated as a garden shrub. Leaves are 2- or 3-pinnately compound; leaflets oblong-ovate or ovate, 4-10 X 2.5-4.5 cm, papery, hairless, base broadly wedge-shaped, tip tapering; lateral veins 5 or 6 on each side of midrib. Large flowers are borne in racemes, 1-4 cm, at branch-ends, few flowered. Flowers are greenish white or golden yellow, bell-shaped, 3.5-5 x about 1.5 cm, velvet-hairy above; tube about 5 mm in diameter at base, Petals are kidney-shaped-triangular, about 1 cm in diameter. Sepal-cup is pale red, tubular, irregular, about 1.8 cm, 3-5-lobed. Capsule are about 40 cm x 5 mm; septum compressed rounded. Hainan China Doll is found in Hainan, S. China to Indo-China.

Identification credit: Nidhan Singh, Tabish Photographed in cultivation in Panipat, Haryana.

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