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Eastern Coralbean
Erythrina herbacea

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.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- 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
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