Jacaranda family : BIGNONIACEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Campsis radicans Trumpet Creeper Lidcombe, November 2006	Jacaranda mimosaefolia Jacaranda Sydney, June 2005	Kigelia africana Sausage Tree Magnetic Island, December 2007 Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Pandorea pandorana Wonga Wonga Vine Wyee, August 2006
Pandorea pandorana variety Golden Showers Wyee, September 2007	Pandorea snowbells variety Snow Bells Concord, September 2007	Podranea ricasoliana Pink Trumpets Sydney, February 2007	Pyrostegia venusta Flame Vine Sydney, August 2006
Radermachera sinica China Doll Concord, December 2009	Saritaea magnifica Glow Vine Magnetic Island, Photos: courtesy of Donald Simpson	Spathodea campanulata African Tulip Tree Childers, December 2006	Tabebuia crysantha Araguaney Wyee, October 2007

Tecoma stans Yellow Trumpetbush Concord, October 2008

Tecomaria capensis Cape Honeysuckle Ballina, October 2006

Plants in BIGNONIACEAE have been used as foodplants by the caterpillars of a number of Australian Moth species, including:

Hippotion celerio	Psilogramma casuarinae	Psilogramma menephron	Psilogramma papuensis	Theretra oldenlandiae	Cerberonoton severina

Alucita phricodes	Hyblaea puera	Hyblaea synaema

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 9 August 2015, 14 February 2020)