Family: Fabaceae

Panama flame is a small tree that features an umbrella-shaped crown packed dense with leaves. It grows at a medium pace and thrives in high humidity. Orangeish-red flowers appear in the Winter and Spring. Pollinators visit the flowers during this time.  A low maintenance tree when grown on the windward side.

 

Plant Uses:

• Container plant
• Hedge
• Lei flower
• Medicinal
• Ornamental
• Privacy / screening
• Specimen

Plant Dangers:

• No dangers

High Risk Traits:

• Highly suited to tropical climates
  
• Shade-tolerant understory tree
  
• Nitrogen-fixing legume
  
• Produces viable seeds

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized
  
• Non-weedy
  
• No spines/thorns; not toxic to humans or animals
  
• Poor dispersal: no wind, water, bird, or attachment adaptations
  
• Low seed production; no evidence of long-term seed bank
  
• Requires specific conditions: shade, moist acidic soil, tropical climate