Scientific name: Tecoma stans. Growth habit: An evergreen, rounded, large shrub to small tree with numerous branches growing to 15 feet tall and wide. The bright-green compound leaves grow to 10 in… ...

This variable Tropical American species, which displays trumpet-shaped yellow flowers most of the year, often progresses from a 3-gallon container plant to a 15-foot tree in one year. Yellow elder ...

An extraordinarily variable, broad-leaved evergreen, yellow elder plants range from 10 to 40 feet tall. Regardless of size, they all bear clusters of yellow, vanilla-scented flowers much of the ...

It’s called Yellow Bells or Yellow Elder (Tacoma stans). Costa Ricans call it vainicillo, or little vanilla. This hardy bush is found in most regions of Costa Rica and easy to identify with its ...