Yellow Blossom (Tecoma stans)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Tecoma stans
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: (L.) Juss. ex Kunth
Common names: Yellow Blossom, Yellow Trumpetbush, Ginger Thomas, Ginger-Thomas, Golden Seal, Trumpetbush, Yellow Bells, esperanza, tecoma, trumpet-flower, trumpetflower, yellow elder, yellow trumpet flower, yellow trumpet-flower, yellow-bells, yellow-elder, yellow tecoma
Names in other languages (61)
Bois pissenlit, Bois pissenlit, Bois Caraïbe, Chevalier, Chicalá, Chirlobirlo, Cholan, Fresno, Gelbblühender Trompetenbaum, Gelbe Trompetenblume, Gele Bignonia, Geltonoji tekoma, Gualpe, Guarán, Huaranhuay, Ipê-de-jardim, Kelki Hel, Killu sisa, Lalame, Lame, Palo de arco, Piti, Roble amarillo, Ruibarba, Sarı Trompet, Sauco amarillo; Ginger Thomas, Sawsaw, Saúco amarillo, Tecoma, Bignonia jaune, Bois pissenlit, Trompette d'or, Tekoma prosta, Tepla, Trompette d'or, Técome droit, Técoma droit, Bois pissenlit, Bois Caraïbe, Trompette d'or, Bignone jaune, Piti, Yellow cedar, amarelinho, bignonia-amarela, geelklokkies, guarán amarillo, guarã-guarã, gul trumpetbuske, ipezinho-de-jardim, ipê-amarelo-de-jardim, k'an-lol, keltatekoma, kohai, pïti, sinos-amarelos, tekoma vzpriamená, tekoma vzpřímená, timboco, trompetilla, tronadora, vainillo, Текома прямостоячая, דק-פרי זקוף, تيكومة صفراء, تيكومة واقفة, વસંત, කැළණිතිස්ස, ทองอุไร, キンレイジュ, 黃鐘花
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Lamiales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Tecoma
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: stans
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Tecoma stans
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:02.

Photo of Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth — Photo: Jacob Saucier · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:02.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 2 of 12 has its flowers visited by × visits the flowers of × 10 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 119 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	17	not compared
17 sources · 18 records Cyrille, N., Lelièvre, Y., Dumbardon-Martial, E. et al. Wild insect flower visitor assemblages and resource use in tropical gardens: driven by floral offer, modulated by honeybees. Biodivers Conserv 35, 213 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-026-03395-9. Accessed at <https:/… Published in globalbioticinteractions/cyrille2026 Record contexts (sample): Martinique · 0022-01-12T00:00:00Z; Martinique · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99592260 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 27, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99848950 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 30, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99932164 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 1, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202568571 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Feb. 26, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117691811 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 18, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118366164 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 23, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118366165 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · May 23, 2022 · Human observation And 9 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus Apidae	has its flowers visited by	15	not compared
15 sources · 16 records https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/metadata/ Published in globalbioticinteractions/gbif-us-bees Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 11, 2024 · Human observation; no place published · July 11, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295718002 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 6, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7135731 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 20, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8500516 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 10, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8500621 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 10, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8712219 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 9, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8712761 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 9, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/320033612 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 10, 2025 · Human observation And 7 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Sonoran Bumble Bee Bombus sonorus Apidae	has its flowers visited by	10	not compared
10 sources · 14 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297013919 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 11, 2025 · Human observation; no place published · July 11, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/311066917 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Sept. 2, 2025 · Human observation; no place published · Sept. 2, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/312315683 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Sept. 6, 2025 · Human observation; no place published · Sept. 6, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93036763 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · Aug. 21, 2021 · Human observation; no place published · Aug. 21, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/304697802 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 7, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305393542 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 9, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7384804 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 4, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7413075 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 5, 2017 · Human observation And 2 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae Trochilidae	has its flowers visited by	7	not compared
7 sources · 7 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99592400 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 27, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/100322902 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 5, 2021 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/18460587 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 13, 2018 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142494099 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 16, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142641777 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 23, 2022 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189067894 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Oct. 26, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192162524 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Nov. 23, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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visits the flowers of 2 organisms

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Gold Rim Swallowtail Battus polydamas Papilionidae	visits the flowers of	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295136728 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 4, 2025 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor philenor Papilionidae	visits the flowers of	1	not compared
1 source · 1 record https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295136858 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 4, 2025 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.