Botanical name: Tecoma sp.
Common names: Tecoma Lydia, Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder
Cultivar: Lydia
Family: Bignoniaceae
Origin: Tropical America
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Lydia is a product of Tecoma breeding project of George Hull in Phoenix. She is indeed a beautiful everbloomer that can be expected to be in bloom from very early spring until frost.
Compared to other yellow Tecomas, Lydia is a very compact, dwarf shrub, flowers are clear, soft lemon-yellow color with white throat. Unlike traditional varieties, it is a sterile hybrid that doesn't produce messy seeds that most tecomas do.
Tecomas do appreciate a bit of extra fertilizer so monthly during the growing season, a small application will induce more new growth and flowering.
Similar plants: Tecoma sp. 'Lydia' (Tecoma Lydia)
- Pandorea jasminoides (Pandora vine)
- Podranea ricasoliana (Port St. John's Creeper)
- Tabebuia alba (Lapacho Amarillo)
- Tecoma alata (Orange Trumpet Flower)
- Tecoma castanifolia (Yellow Bells)
- Tecoma sambucifolia (Trumpet Flower)
- Tecoma stans (Yellow Elder)
- Tecoma X smithii (Orange Bells)
- Tecomanthe Aurea (Yellow Tecomanthe )
- Tecomanthe dendrophila (New Guinea Creeper vine)
Link to this plant:
https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/tecoma_lydia.htm