RE: Red Bauhinia - a warm colour during winter.
A shrubby plant that often climbs into surrounding trees and reaches up to 5 m or more in height. Its younger branches are finely hairy while the older stems quickly become hairless. Its broad leaves (2-7 cm long) have two rounded lobes at the tip and are often folded lengthwise. Its orange to dark red flowers have five have five large petals (2.5-5 cm long) with narrow bases and broad rounded tips. Its large elongated pods (8-13 cm long and 18-28 mm wide) turn dark brown in colour as they mature.
The younger branches are finely hairy (i.e. puberulous) while but they quickly become hairless (i.e. glabrous). The alternately arranged leaves are borne on short stalks (i.e. petioles) 5-23 mm long. They are often folded lengthwise and are butterfly-like in appearance. Their upper surfaces are hairless (i.e. glabrous), while their undersides are sparsely hairy (i.e. puberulent).
Flowering branches and flower stalks (i.e. pedicels) are densely covered with tiny brownish coloured hairs (i.e. they are pubescent). The individual flowers are borne on stalks only 2-5 mm long, but the base of each flower forms a narrow stalk-like tube (i.e. hypanthium) 17-32 mm long that is obscurely to conspicuously ribbed lengthwise.
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