Spathodea campanulata (African flame tree, Uganda flame tree) 

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales>  Family: Bignoniaceae

Native to forest margins and gorges in tropical Africa, but not indigenous to southern Africa. Widely grown in southern African gardens where there is no frost.

Spathodea campanulata in Company Gardens, Cape Town. [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Herbivores

Acherontia atropos Lepidoptera > Sphingidae The caterpillar eats the leaves of Spathodea campanulata (amongst quite a wide variety of host-plants).
Andriasa contraria Lepidoptera > Sphingidae The caterpillar eats the leaves.

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