Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_tabebuia_heterophylla
Pink Trumpet Tree
Tabebuia heterophylla
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About Pink Trumpet Tree
Pink Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia heterophylla) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native to the Caribbean and adapted to tropical dry and moist forest, edges, and disturbed sites. Wind-dispersed seeds can travel from mature flowering trees. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence; current distribution and effects are unmeasured.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Tabebuia heterophylla
- Common names
- Pink Trumpet Tree · White cedar
- Other names
- Tabebuia heterophylla · Pink trumpet tree · White cedar
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Present island-wide abundance, occupied habitat, recruitment, population trend, and ecological effects have not been quantified; no invasive severity is inferred from checklist, Polynesian-introduction, forestry, or planting status.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Showy tubular flowers require animal pollination; dry capsules open to release numerous winged seeds carried by wind. Local pollinators, seed-flight distances, and recruitment are unmeasured.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Pink Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia heterophylla) is an introduced tree documented on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Its checklist classification is naturalized; current extent is unassessed. Native to the Caribbean and adapted to tropical dry and moist forest, edges, and disturbed sites. Wind-dispersed seeds can travel from mature flowering trees. Bishop Museum and Smithsonian document naturalized Kauaʻi occurrence; current distribution and effects are unmeasured.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:248689-2
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:248689-2/general-information
- https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr75.pdf
- https://editedimages.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Imadaetal.2025Hawaiianvascularplants.xlsx
- https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043