Erythrina caffra
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Photo: Mark Hyde
Alfred Street, Cape Town.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Alfred Street, Cape Town.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Alfred Street, Cape Town.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Alfred Street, Cape Town.
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| Common names: | Coast coral-tree (English) |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Medium-sized to large tree. Trunk and branches often armed with recurved prickles. Leaves often clustered at the ends of branches, 3-foliolate with leaflets ovate, up to 16 × 18 cm, hairless; apex long pointed. Terminal leaflet usually larger than more asymmetrical lateral leaflets. Flowers orange-scarlet in spectacular dense terminal racemes, flowering before the leaves arrive. Pod 12-20 cm long, irregularly constricted between the seeds, hairless, black. Seeds bright red with a black hilum. |
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| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | caffra: of Caffraria, historic name for South Africa |
| Habitat: | Occurring in coastal forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Aug - Sep |
| Worldwide distribution: | In the extreme south of Mozambique and along the east coast of South Africa. |
| FZ divisions: | M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 303. (Includes a picture). Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 9 - 10. |
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