The fruit is cylindrical with soft, sweet flesh and many small seeds. The tree is propagated by seed. A fast growing tree reaching about sixty feet at maturity. The stems of the Trumpet Tree are hollow and sometimes inhabited by biting ants. This tree is dioecious, with female flowers being spiked and yellow.
Male flowers are numerous infloresences about two inches long.
Trumpet Tree is ornamentaly planted in the tropics. This website contains a large amount of information regarding the plants housed in our diverse collections. This information is gathered from a wide variety of electronic, print and other sources. We have included reference information on each page to denote the original source of such information. More importantly, many of the plants in our collections have reputed medicinal properties according to some sources.