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Weed status : Adventive - Not Yet Classified

Structural Class : Dicotyledonous Trees & Shrubs

Scientific name : Erythrina x sykesii

Family : Fabaceae

Common Name : coral tree

Approx year naturalised in New Zealand: 1986

Areas of Origin : Australia (parents from N. America and Africa)

Reason for introduction : Ornamental

Habitat : Terrestrial.

Features : Deciduous tree up to 12-(18)m high; trunks with stout prickles; twigs round, smooth, clothed in short hairs when young but becoming glabrous, armed with prickles; prickles stout-based, scattered, 5-10 mm long. Leaves densely clothed with short medifixed hairs when young, becoming +/- glabrous; leaflets broadly ovatre to deltoid, +/- acuminate, obtuse to truncate at base, entire (7)-10-20 cm long; lateral leaflets somewhat smaller than terminal; stipules lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, caducous; stipels c. 1 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, clustered at tips of branches, clothed in brown medifixed hairs when young; flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate, subtended by caducous bracteoles. Calyx spathe-like, bilbiate, or irregularly shallowly toothed. Standard scarlet, c. 50-60 mm long, wings and keel c. 1/2 length of standard, orange to pale orange; filaments mauve. Pods not formed. (Webb et al. 1988).

Similar species : Can be distinguished from E. crista-galli by the axillary inflorescences clothed in brown hairs, the keel roughly 1/2 the length of the standard, and the leaves broadly ovate to deltoid (hairy when young).

Flowering time in New Zealand: August, September, October.

Fruiting time :

Comments on Lifecycle : Perennial.

Reproduction : Cuttings and dropped branches take root easily.

Seed : Not seen as this is a sterile hybrid (Likely parents are E. coralloides and E. lysistemon)

Licentie

Dit werk vrijgegeven in het publieke domein door de auteur, Kahuroa. Dit is wereldwijd van toepassing. In sommige landen is dit wettelijk niet mogelijk; in die gevallen geldt: Kahuroa staat iedereen toe dit werk voor eender welk doel te gebruiken, zonder enige voorwaarden, tenzij zulke voorwaarden door de wet worden voorgeschreven.