Bauhinia Blakeana is native to subtropical regions. It prefers a warm, humid, rainy climate and a sunny environment. It prefers a deep, fertile, well-drained acidic sandy loam. It has strong adaptability and certain cold tolerance, and can survive the winter in the vast areas south of the Tropic of Cancer in China. Rapid growth, three-year-old saplings can reach a height of about 3 meters. It has strong germination and branching ability, many branches, and is extremely resistant to pruning. The flowering period is long, from the end of October every year to the end of May of the following year, and the flowering period lasts for more than half a year. Bauhinia Blakeana is lush and evergreen all year round and is an excellent landscaping tree species in South China.

Bauhinia Blakeana is a tree; branched, branchlets slender, hairy. Leaves are leathery, nearly round or broadly heart-shaped, 8.5-13 cm long, 9-14 cm wide, base heart-shaped, sometimes nearly truncate, apex 2-lobed about 1/4-1/3 of the full length of the leaf, lobe top Obtuse or narrowly rounded, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below; basal veins 11-13; petiole 3.5-4 cm long, brown pubescent.
Racemes terminal or axillary, sometimes compounded into panicles, pubescent; bracts and bracteoles triangular, about 3 mm long; flowers large and beautiful; buds fusiform; calyx flame-shaped, about 2.5 cm long , with pale red and green lines; petals reddish purple, with short stalks, oblanceolate, even stalks 5-8 cm long and 2.5-3 cm wide, one adaxial piece is dark purple from the middle to the base; fertile Stamens 5, of which 3 are longer; staminodes 2-5, filiform, very fine; ovary long-stalked, pubescent. Usually no results. Bauhinia Blakeana blooms throughout the year, with the full bloom from March to April.