Pseudobombax ellipticum Pink (Pink Shaving Brush Tree)

Pseudobombax ellipticum Pink (Pink Shaving Brush Tree)Full sun part shade; regular water. Deciduous tree that can reach 30ft or more. It has a swollen smooth green trunk, often with a tortoise shell pattern and fissured with gray bark, short thick succulent stems and large palmately compound leaves with five elliptical rounded dark green leaflets. In the spring, when the tree is still bare of leaves appear the long greenish black upright buds that open with green sepals pealing back and reflexing

Bears large clusters of white flowers composed of numerous white stamens and a thin central pistil

Full sun or dry shade-moderate water

slightly hairy

Leaves were utilized medicinally as a poultice to reduce swelling

The flowers are a pale greenish yellow and are followed by seed pods and many new "plantlets"

tubular red flowers on bright red stems to 3ft tall throughout spring and summer

Estimated Chill Hours: 800

high climbing to 15-25ft

2 ½ ft branching flower stalks that bear bright blue six-petaled flowers less than an inch wide

Clusters of pink flowers are abundant over a long blooming season followed by berries that are purple-red

Long-time favorite white-fleshed freestone

striped with bright yellow