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Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl.

Synonym	:	Bignonia capensis Thunb.
Family	:	Bignoniaceae
Local name	:	English         - Cape Honey Suckle
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Throughout the year
Distribution	:	Africa, cultivated and naturalised in many subtropical and tropical countries.
Distribution in kerala	:	All Districts
Habitat	:	Grown as garden plants
Endemic / Exotic		Exotic
Uses	:	The bark is used in traditional medicine to relieve pain and sleeplessness, to bring down fevers, to treat chest ailments such as bronchitis, to treat stomach pains, diarrhoea and dysentery and to encourage the flow of milk in nursing mothers. Leaves are also used to treat diarrhoea and gastro-enteritis.
Key Botanical Characters  : An erect and scrambling shrubs, up to c. 3 m high. Leaves opposite; leaflets 5-9, 1-3 x 1-2 cm elliptic to suborbicular, acute to obtuse at apex, crenate, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, with domatia in the nerve axils; subsessile. Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed at apex. Corolla tubular, 4-5 cm long, red, rarely pale yellow, villous within . Stamens 4, didynamous, exserted, filaments 3-3.5 cm long. Disc fleshy. Stigmatic lobes flattened.