not subjected to severe frosts. African tulip-tree tolerates neglect
and is useful as a fast-growing background, shade or street tree.
Insect and disease pests are not known to be a problem.

 Swietenia mahogani. Meliaceae. Mahogany or Madeira Redwood.
Southern area. Evergreen. Native.
 In Florida, mahogany ordinarily does not exceed a height of 50
feet, but with adequate room, develops a rounded, dense top (Fig. 52).
This tree may be considered an evergreen but does lose its foliage for
a short time in late spring. The rather thick, pinnately compound
leaves, with 3 or 4 pairs of ovate-lanceolate leaflets, are 4 to 6 inches
long. Small white flowers are followed by a 4-inch long woody capsule
that splits at maturity.
 Mahogany does not make a dense shade and is useful as a lawn,
framing and street tree. It is markedly resistant to salt spray and
high winds. This tree does not have any serious disease pests, but
caterpillars and beetles may cause defoliation.

 Tabebuia spp. Bignoniaceae. Trumpet-Tree or Tabebuia. South-
ern area. Deciduous.
 The pink trumpet-tree, Tabebuia pallida, native to the West
Indies and Central America, is reported to attain a height of 60 feet
in its native habitat, but it is doubtful that any in Florida have
reached half that height (Fig. 53). Long-petioled leaves are digitately
compound with 3 or 5 leaflets which may be 6 inches long. Pink
flowers, 21/2 to 3 inches long, are borne in large terminal panicles in
late winter or early spring months, a short time after leaves fall.
Fruits are long, cylindrical pods containing numerous winged seeds.

Fig. 52.-Mahogany, Swietenia mahogani (left) and Fig. 53 the trumpet-tree,
 Tabebuia pallida.