Caribbean Trumpet Tree – Tabebuia Argentea

In addition to its silvery foliage, the Caribbean trumpet tree has attractive silvery, corky bark. It grows from 30 to 40 feet tall and often leans. Its branches and trunk are typically contorted with two or three major trunks or branches dominating an asymmetrical crown. From five to seven oblong silvery-gray, oblong leaflets, roughly 4 inches wide and 11 inches long, fan outward like the extended fingers of a hand, a form botanists call palmate. The tree’s bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers are about 1 inch wide and 3 1/2 inches long.