Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_tabebuia_rosea
Pink Trumpet Tree
Tabebuia rosea
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About Pink Trumpet Tree
Pink Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia rosea) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to Mexico through Central America to northern South America in tropical seasonal forest. Government forestry records document historical planting of Tabebuia rosea on Kauaʻi. Planting evidence alone does not establish present survival, naturalization, abundance, or ecological impact. Current survival, naturalization, abundance and ecological effects are 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 134 plants under Tabebuia pentaphylla 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
- Tabebuia rosea
- Common names
- Pink Trumpet Tree · Rosy trumpet tree
- Other names
- Tabebuia rosea · Pink trumpet tree · Rosy trumpet tree · Tabebuia pentaphylla
- 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
- Current survival on Kauaʻi, numbers, occupied habitat, reproduction and ecological effects are unconfirmed; historical planting does not establish naturalization.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Large trumpet flowers require animal pollination; mature capsules release wind-dispersed winged seeds. Kauaʻi flowering, pollination, viability, and recruitment are unknown.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Deciduous 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
- Pink Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia rosea) is a post-contact introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi through historical forestry planting records. The reviewed records do not establish present survival. Native to Mexico through Central America to northern South America in tropical seasonal forest. Government forestry records document historical planting of Tabebuia rosea on Kauaʻi. Planting evidence alone does not establish present survival, naturalization, abundance, or ecological impact. Current survival, naturalization, abundance and ecological effects are unconfirmed. Public occurrence is island-level only.