Erythrina speciosa

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Erythrina

Trees , shrubs or undershrubs; branches often prickly. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate ; stipels glandular ; stipules small. Inflorescence axillary or terminal racemes , flowers usually clustered, scarlet, showy. Calyx with an oblique mouth , splitting down to the base or campanulate , bilabiate. Vexillum much longer than the wing and the keel. Stamens mono or diadelphous , vexillary stamen free nearly to the base or connate with others, anthers uniform . Ovary stipitate , many-ovuled, style incurved , stigma small, terminal. Fruit stipitate, torulose , falcate .

A genus with about 108 species (Krukoff & Barneby l.c.), tropical and sub-tropical in distribution; locally represented by 3 species.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 6-8' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Corallodendron reticulatum (C. Presl)kuntze • Erythrina graefferi Tineo • Erythrina poianthes Brot. • Erythrina poianthes var. subinermis Lindl. • Erythrina reticulata C. Presl • Micropteryx reticulata Walp. • Stenotropis berteroi Hassk.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Tree , Lifespan: Perennial

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Erythrina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 50 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. abyssinica (Coral Tree) · E. abyssinica abyssinica (Erythrina) · E. acanthocarpa (Tambookie Thorn) · E. americana (Naked Coral Tree) · E. berteriana (Machete) · E. berteroana (Amapola De Cerca) · E. bidwillii (Amapola) · E. caffra (Cape Kaffirboom) · E. chiapasana (Pipal) · E. chiriquensis (Erythrina) · E. corallodendron (Amapola) · E. corallodendron var. bicolor (Bois Immortelle) · E. coralloides (Naked Coral Tree) · E. crista-galli (Brazillian Coral Tree) · E. dominguezii (Seibo Rosado) · E. edulis (Sachaporoto) · E. eggersii (Cock's-Spur) · E. falcata (Brazilian Coral Tree) · E. flabelliformis (Colorines) · E. folkersii (Coral Tree) · E. fusca (Amapola) · E. guatemalensis (Pito) · E. herbacea (Cardinal Spear) · E. humeana (Coral Bean) · E. indica (Indian Coral Tree) · E. indica var. picta (Samoan Sunshine Tree) · E. lanceolata (Machete Tree) · E. latissima (Broad-Leafed Coral Tree) · E. lysistemon (Common Coral Tree) · E. macrophylla (Machetillos) · E. mexicana (Pito) · E. mitis (Nourouc Sans pines) · E. poeppigiana (Anauca) · E. sandwicensis (Wili Wili) · E. senegalensis (Senegal Coraltree) · E. speciosa (Coral Tree) · E. speciosa 'Rosea' (Coral Tree) · E. standleyana (Chacmolche) · E. stricta (Coral-Tree) · E. suberosa (Coral Tree) · E. subumbrans (Erythrina) · E. sykesii (Coral Tree) · E. tahitensis (Oporavainui) · E. variegata (Amapola) · E. velutina (Bico-De-Papagaio) · E. verna (Mulungú) · E. vespertilio (Bat's Wing Coral Tree) · E. x bidwillii (Coral Tree) · E. x sykesii (Coral Tree) · E. zeyheri (Ploughbreaker)

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Further Reading

• An encyclopaedia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a By J.C. Loudon. London, Printed for Longman, Ross, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. url p. 921.
• An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a By J.C. Loudon. .. illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. url p. 921.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 29 1957 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 551.
• Contributions to the natural history of the Bermudas. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1884. url p. 68.
• Edwards, S. T. The Botanical register: consisting of coloured figures of. .. 9 1823 London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1815-1828. url , , .
• Flora of Bermuda. .. by Nathaniel Lord Britton. .. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1918. url p. 189.
• Flora of Bermuda... by Nathaniel Lord Britton... New York, Scribner, 1918. url p. 189.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1943 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1943] url p. 307.
• Florists' review Chicago: Florists' Pub. Co. url .
• Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. New York: The Garden and forest publishing co., 1888-97. url p. 263.
• Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis; A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's botanical garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore botanical garden. By the late J. O. Voigt, printed under the superintendence of W. Griffith. Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1845. url p. 238.
• Philosophical magazine. London: Taylor & Francis. url p. 59.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 110, p. 122, p. 132, p. 252, p. 258, p. 296, p. 443, p. 5.
• Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76: under the command of Captain George S. Nares, R.N., F.R.S. and Captain Frank Turle Thomson, R.N. / prepared under the superintendence of Sir C. Wyville Thomson. Edinburgh: Neill, 1880-1895. url p. 29.
• Suggestions received by the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India for extending the cultivation and introduction of useful and ornamental plants: with a view to the improvement of the agricultural and commercial resources of India / compiled by Henry Harpur Spry. Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, 1841. url p. 29.
• The Bermuda islands: an account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man; with 38 plates and over 250 cuts in the text / by Addison E. Verrill. New Haven, Conn.: The author, 1902. url p. 234.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 357.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 401.
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 532.
• Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1866- url p. 646, p. 646.
• Tropical Africa, New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1903. url p. 52.
• Tropical Africa, New York, J. B. Alden, 1890. url p. 36.
• Tropical Africa, New York, Scribner and Welford, 1882. url p. 52.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 23, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3941177
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11899
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638111
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494589-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 738369

Footnotes

1. "Erythrina". in Flora of Pakistan Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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