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Ploughbreaker
Erythrina zeyheri
About
Erythrina zeyheri, commonly known as the ploughbreaker, is a deciduous, geoxylic subshrub and member of the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to southern Africa. It grows no more than 60 cm tall and occurs naturally in the higher elevation grasslands of South Africa's central plateau, and that of adjacent Lesotho. They favour deep clay soil in the vicinity of creeks and marshes, and often form colonies.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Erythrina zeyheri
- Slug
- erythrina-zeyheri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Erythrina
- Species
- zeyheri
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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