Mexican buckeye - Central Texas Gardener
Mexican buckeye is a wonderful little Texas native tree that’s a real show-stopper in late winter and early spring. It’s deciduous, and like many spring-flowering trees, it puts on a beautiful floral display for a short few weeks just as it’s putting on new leaves for the year.
Mexican Buckeye - Texas A&M University
Mexican Buckeye grows to be a large shrub to small multi-stem deciduous tree. Its primary landscape feature is its pink-purple spring flowers that resemble those of Redbuds (Cercis spp.). A decent yellow fall color sometimes develops..
Texas A&M Forest Service - Trees of Texas - List of Trees
Mexican buckeye Leaf Type: Deciduous Texas Native: Firewise: Tree Description: A many-trunked shrub or small tree up to 20 feet tall and trunks up to 10" in diameter, forming an irregular crown.
Ungnadia speciosa (Mexican Buckeye) - Dallas County Master …
2024年2月1日 · Description: Mexican Buckeye is an attractive, deciduous native shrub known for its brilliantly colored flowers and ornamental appeal. Showy clusters of sweet-smelling, pink blooms which attract butterflies and other pollinators dominate the branches in early spring before the foliage emerges.
Mexican Buckeye Texas Native - Texas Tree Farms
Description: The Mexican Buckeye is a deciduous tree known for its attractive spring foliage and showy pink flowers. It typically grows as a multi-trunked tree with a spreading canopy. The leaves are compound, consisting of five to seven leaflets, which turn yellow in fall before dropping.
Plants of Texas Rangelands » Mexican buckeye
Mexican buckeye is a large, deciduous shrub in the Soapberry Family that grows up to 30 feet tall. Its bark is gray to brown, thin, and smooth. Its leaves are compound, alternate, and up to 1 foot long.
Discover the Marvels of the Mexican Buckeye Tree
The Mexican Buckeye tree, or Ungnadia speciosa, is a special kind of tree that grows pretty pink flowers in the spring. It's not actually related to true buckeye trees but gets its name because its seeds look similar.
Mexican Buckeye, Monillo, Mona, Texas Buckeye, Spanish Buckeye…
Mexican buckeye occurs mostly west of the Brazos River on the well drained limestone soils on stream banks of damp canyons in South, Central and West Texas, east to Dallas County. Its pink flowers bloom simultaneously as it leafs out with light bronze colored leaflets which turn pale green during the growing season.
Ungnadia speciosa - Native Plant Society of Texas
Varies in height according to conditions: in Houston it is a fast growing tree with large pink flowers; in the Guadalupe Mountains it is a four foot tall shrub with smaller flowers. Can be used near overhead utilities. Showy flowers appear in the spring. …
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at …
Mexican-buckeye, an 8-12 ft., deciduous tree, can reach 30 ft. in height. It is often multi-trunked with with light gray to brown bark, smooth on young branches, becoming fissured with age.