Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

Tecoma capensis is a low-growing sprawling shrub or evergreen vine. The leaves are compound-pinnate, dark green and glossy. Beautifulf clusters of tubular, orange-red to scarlet flowers appear in the summer.
(Taylor’s Master Guide to Gardening. 1994.)
(Philips, R. and Rix, M. 1998. Climbers for Wall and Arbors.)

Cape Honeysuckle is grown for its beautiful bright colored flowers that attract hummingbirds, as a foundation plant or in informal hedges.
(Taylor’s Master Guide to Gardening. 1994.)
(Philips, R. and Rix, M. 1998. Climbers for Wall and Arbors.)

(Information for this species compiled and recorded by Camelia Cirnaru, NTBG Consultant.)

This climbing shrub is native to South Africa.
(Taylor’s Master Guide to Gardening. 1994.)
(Philips, R. and Rix, M. 1998. Climbers for Wall and Arbors.)

The red flowers and the nectar produced by Cape Honeysuckle are attractants to hummingbirds and butterflies. The vine also provides habitat to ants.
(Taylor’s Master Guide to Gardening. 1994.)
(Philips, R. and Rix, M. 1998. Climbers for Wall and Arbors.)

We currently have 5 herbarium specimens for Tecoma capensis in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.

• 004085 - collected by W. M. Bush in 1974
• 004084 - collected by Joel Lau in 1985
• 058501 - collected by Natalia Tangalin in 2005
• 056126 - collected by Forest Starr in 2007
• 051058 - collected by Hank Oppenheimer in 2008