10 PURPLE ORCHID TREE Bauhinia Purpurea Camel's Foot Butterfly Flower Tree Hummingbird Seeds

DESCRIPTION: NAME: Purple Tree Orchid OTHER COMMON NAMES: Purple Bauhinia / Orchid Tree / Butterfly Flower / Butterfly Tree / Camel's Foot / Hawaiian Orchid Tree SCIENTIFIC NAME: Bauhinia Purpurea syn. Bauhomoa Triandra COLOR: Purple PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost BLOOM TIME: Winter - Spring HARDINESS ZONE: 9 -12 PLANT HEIGHT: 15 - 30' PLANT SPACING: 15 - 30' LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average QUANTITY: 10 Seeds OTHER: This show-stopping tropical tree is native to Indian subcontinent, but has been naturalized in the US, The Caribbean, Australia, & beyond. They are a wonderful ornamental, growing quickly but not too large. They are actually a legume, & are able to tolerate poor soils & even help to fix the nitrogen levels in the soil making it more fertile. The large showy orchid-like flowers smother the tree in purple flowers with darker reddish tongues & splotches that attract HUMMINGBIRDS. Af