Bauhinia Species, Butterfly Orchid Tree, Pom Pom Orchid Tree

I live in Houston, TX. Mine has grown to approx. 10ft tall and 12’ wide. It is covered with hundreds of 2” white/pink bloom from spri...Read Moreng to winter. I rarely have to water it, even in clay soil. The swallowtails, gulf fritillaries, monarchs, and several other butterflies love it and circle it most all day in the summer. The hummingbirds also love it. It has frozen almost to the ground a couple times but always comes back bigger and better. It is my favorite plant in my yard.

I grow 2 forms: one is pure white and the second pink and white. They are very free flowering all summer but needs some shelter from harsh frost

...so disappointing, to learn that the flowers of B. divaricata are "tiny"! I keep hoping I will find the variety of B. that I once had,...Read More and this one is so beautiful that I thought it might make a substitute if I fail to come up with the one I loved...

highly attractive to butterflies, humming birds. often called Pata de Chivo (goat's foot) because the leaf is the shape of a goat foot p...Read Morerint. Another orchid tree that grows much taller is often called Pata de Vaca (cow's foot) as its leaf is the shape of a cow footprint.