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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

older woody stems (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

once-compound leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaf with toothed leaflets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaf underside (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

flower cluster (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, USGS)

close-up of tubular flowers and flower buds (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, USGS)

close-up of reddish-orange flowers (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

mature fruit (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, USGS)

suckering from crown and roots (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

young plant (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Tecoma capensis

Scientific Name

Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl.

Synonyms

Bignonia capensis Thunb.
Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach

Family

Bignoniaceae

Common Names

Cape honeysuckle, fire flower, flame vine, red tecoma, tecoma

Origin

Native to southern Africa (i.e. South Africa and Swaziland) and southern Mozambique.

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in the coastal districts of eastern Australia (i.e. throughout eastern Queensland, in the coastal districts of central and northern New South Wales, and in eastern Victoria). Also naturalised on Norfolk Island and overseas in south-eastern USA (i.e. Florida).

Notes

Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis) is regarded as an environmental weed in Queensland and New South Wales.