General Landscape Uses: Shade tree, ornamental specimen, or urban street tree in tropical and subtropical regions.

Ecological Restoration Notes: Dryland reforestation

Description: Bulnesia or Verawood is a fantastic specimen and shade tree. It produces exotic buttery yellow flowers Spring, Summer and Fall. Bulnesia also has fern-like leaves that form a lush and attractive canopy.

Dimensions: Height 20 ft.

Growth Rate: Slow to moderate

Native Range: Northern South America

Native Habitats: Dry tropical forests, hillsides, and savannah edges.

Soils: Well-drained, sandy or loamy

Nutritional Requirements: Low

Salt Water Tolerance: Low; not suited to saline soils or brackish irrigation.

Salt Wind Tolerance: Low to moderate; avoid direct coastal exposure.

Drought Tolerance: High

Light Requirements: Full Sun

Flower Color: yellow

Flower Characteristics: showy

Flowering Season: spring to summer

Fruit: Small, winged samaras (dry, wind-dispersed fruit).

Wildlife and Ecology:  Flowers attract pollinators, seed consumed by birds

Horticultural Notes: Propagated by seed, cuttings

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