Kleinhovia hospita L.

Type
Exotic
Family
Sterculiaceae
Common Name
Guest tree
Origin
Indo-Malesia
Botanical Features

Medium-sized trees; branchlets tomentose. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, cordate at base, entire at margin, acuminate at apex, 10-15 x 8-12 cm, glabrous; stipules ensiform. Flowers in large large, terminal panicles, sepals 5, linear-lanceolate, 6-7 mm long, basally connate, pubescent outside. Petals 5, unequal, shorter than sepals, rosy. Capsules pyriform, inflated, membranous, loculicidal, 5-valved; seeds tubercled. 

Habit
Leaf
Flower