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Yellow bells

Tecoma stans
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Yellow bells is a small shrub growing between three metres and eight metres tall.

It is vase shaped with a rounded top and it can be multi-stemmed.

An escaped garden plant, it is a serious threat to native riparian vegetation.

The stem is smooth with squarish twigs which are green, turning tan or reddish tan as they age. The bark on the main trunk is light brown.

Leaves are compound, with linear serrate leaflets about two centimetres wide. They are glossy bright green and have a tropical look.

The plant has clusters of bright yellow trumpet-shaped flowers on terminal portions of the branches. The flowers are about five centimetres long and about two centimetres across.

Yellow bells blooms from mid-April through November.

Seed pods are brown, 10 -30cm long, and burst open with many papery seeds.

The winged seeds are spread by wind.

Yellow bells naturalises in disturbed habitats and riparian areas.

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