Mexican Buckeye

Ungnadia speciosa

Mexican Buckeye is a fast-growing, multi-stemmed native tree or large shrub that delivers one of spring's most vivid color displays, with fragrant, bright magenta-pink blooms emerging directly from the bare branches before the leaves unfurl. Growing 10-18 feet tall, it develops a graceful, open form suited to borders, courtyards, and native woodland gardens. In fall, its distinctive inflated, three-lobed seed pods turn papery tan and split open to reveal shiny, dark brown seeds‚ adding a further ornamental note to this thoroughly charming and underutilized native.

• Showy Magenta Spring Blooms
• Ornamental Inflated Seed Pods
• Charming Native for Limestone Soils