Erythrina abyssinica
Red-hot-poker tree
Description 4
Small to medium sized tree of wooded grassland, open woodland and rocky hillsides. The typically rounded crown is usually leafless at the time of flowering. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets almost as broad as long, hairy when young and sometimes with scattered prickles on the underside of the veins. Flowers in spectacular terminal racemes, scarlet-red. Fruit a woody pod, strongly constricted between the seeds.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Stefaan Dondeyne, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/13/131450-6.jpg
- (c) Stefaan Dondeyne, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/13/131450-4.jpg
- (c) Günter Baumann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=34&id=2452
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19239509
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
