Skip to content
2Learn

Eastern Coralbean

Erythrina herbacea

Eastern Coralbean

About

Erythrina herbacea, commonly known as the Eastern Coralbean, Cherokee Bean, Mamou in South Louisiana, Red Cardinal, or Cardinal Spear is a flowering shrub or small tree found throughout the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico; it has also been reported from parts of Central America and, as an introduced species, from Pakistan. Various other systematic names have been used for this plant in the past, including Erythrina arborea, Erythrina hederifolia, Erythrina humilis, Erythrina rubicunda, Corallodendron herbaceum and Xyphanthus hederifolius.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA

Family
Fabaceae

Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
Name
Erythrina herbacea
Slug
erythrina-herbacea
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Erythrina
Species
herbacea
Wikidata QID
Q5396418
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

Generated sections & citations

summarywikipedia

fun_facts_kidsllm_openai · confidence 0.80

  • wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrina_herbacea

fun_facts_adultllm_openai · confidence 0.80

  • wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrina_herbacea