Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_handroanthus_chrysanthus
Golden Trumpet Tree
Handroanthus chrysanthus
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About Golden Trumpet Tree
Golden Trumpet Tree (Handroanthus chrysanthus) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to tropical American forest and woodland; generic planted forestry clearing reconstruction, no present Kauai survival implied. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents Handroanthus chrysanthus planted on Kauaʻi in 1910–1960 ledger period; species-specific years not extracted. Historical planting evidence only; current survival, naturalization, abundance, recruitment, and ecological effects remain unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence. The 1918–1959 Kauaʻi reforestation working register records 20 plants under Tabebuia chrysantha across 1 entries dated 1943. These are recorded planting quantities, not counts of surviving trees, and they do not by themselves establish current persistence, naturalization, or ecological impact. Source: Kauaʻi Reforestation Plantings 1918–1959 working register (user-supplied; reconciled 6 October 2026).
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Handroanthus chrysanthus
- Common names
- Golden Trumpet Tree
- Other names
- Handroanthus chrysanthus · Golden Trumpet Tree · Tabebuia chrysantha
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Present survival, naturalization, abundance, occupied habitat, population trend and ecological effects on Kauaʻi are unconfirmed.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Bisexual flowers with four unequal stamens, elongated dehiscent seed capsules and two-winged flattened seeds. Leafy young specimen is botanical comparison; no sex-specific tree habit invented. No Kauaʻi-specific phenology or recruitment inferred.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Golden Trumpet Tree (Handroanthus chrysanthus) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to tropical American forest and woodland; generic planted forestry clearing reconstruction, no present Kauai survival implied. A government forestry ledger compiled in 1980 documents Handroanthus chrysanthus planted on Kauaʻi in 1910–1960 ledger period; species-specific years not extracted. Historical planting evidence only; current survival, naturalization, abundance, recruitment, and ecological effects remain unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.