According to Wikipedia, Erythrina lysistemon has extraordinary variation in its flower colour, with orange, yellow, salmon, green and whi...Read Morete all being found within natural populations. This striking color polymorphism is also found in E. sandwicensis and Erythrina caffra. [HYPERLINK@en.wikipedia.org]
Where I live Erythrina lysistemon is found growing in abundance very often as a pioneer tree on sandy soils. In recent years it has becom...Read Moree very popular as a feature tree in landscaping because mature trees can transplanted with ease at any time of year. They are best grown from fresh seed because they grown very rapidly and under ideal conditions can produce their first flowers in the next flowering season. They can also be grown from large truncheon cuttings but tend to develop much slower.
These are very rewarding trees that grow very rapidly in particular on poor nutrient deficient soils providing large amounts of bright red flowers and nectar for a large range of birds in the winter months.
They provide ideal light shade for a whole range of ground cover plants that need a little shading and as a bonus they are provided with nitrogen due to the nitrogen fixing bacterial in the roots of the tree.
large tree from S America with clustered flowers in winter (the banana shaped individual flowers litter the ground in later winter) when ...Read Moremost of the leaves are gone (not 100% deciduous). Leaves fully returned late spring but no flowers then.
According to Wikipedia, Erythrina lysistemon has extraordinary variation in its flower colour, with orange, yellow, salmon, green and whi...Read More
Where I live Erythrina lysistemon is found growing in abundance very often as a pioneer tree on sandy soils. In recent years it has becom...Read More
large tree from S America with clustered flowers in winter (the banana shaped individual flowers litter the ground in later winter) when ...Read More