Erythrina americana

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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

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Corallodendron americanum (Mill.)kuntze • Erythrina carnea Aiton • Erythrina enneandra Dc. • Erythrina fulgens Loisel.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

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

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

• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 28 1980-1982 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 188.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1666, p. 181, p. 433, p. 499, p. 501, p. 594, p. XVI.
• Edwards's botanical register. London: James Ridgway, 1829-1847. url , .
• Edwards, S. T. The Botanical register: consisting of coloured figures of. .. 5 1819 London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1815-1828. url .
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 295.
• Flora, Tehuacán Valley [by] C. Earle Smith, Jr. 31 1965 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. url fig. 32 , p. 118.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 226, p. 506.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 20 2000 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 50.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 101, p. 107, p. 3, p. 73.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 120, p. 122, p. 135, p. 159, p. 174, p. 260, p. 298, p. 5.
• Publication / Institute of Social Anthropology. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944- url p. 136, p. 27, p. 336, p. 342, p. 45, p. 8.
• Root-knot and its control. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1911. url p. 15.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 115 1951 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 332.
• 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. 356.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 38, p. 96.
• The Monthly bulletin of the State Commission of Horticulture. Sacramento, Calif.: The Commission, 1911-1919. url p. 753.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url , p. 1666, p. 501.
• Tropical American plants, IX / Louis O. Williams. 31 1968 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1968. url p. 3.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 30 1995 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 24.

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 December 03, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2865723
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-8772
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13641967
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:96552-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 430647

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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