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Summary
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Erythrina x sykesii (Coral tree) in flower, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 October 2006 |
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photograph by author |
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6 October 2006, {{{Location}}} |
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Kahuroa |
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- Weed status : Adventive - Not Yet Classified
- Structural Class : Dicotyledonous Trees & Shrubs
- Scientific name : Erythrina x sykesii
- Family : Fabaceae
- Common Name : coral tree
- Approx year naturalised in New Zealand: 1986
- Areas of Origin : Australia (parents from N. America and Africa)
- Reason for introduction : Ornamental
- Habitat : Terrestrial.
- Features : Deciduous tree up to 12-(18)m high; trunks with stout prickles; twigs round, smooth, clothed in short hairs when young but becoming glabrous, armed with prickles; prickles stout-based, scattered, 5-10 mm long. Leaves densely clothed with short medifixed hairs when young, becoming +/- glabrous; leaflets broadly ovatre to deltoid, +/- acuminate, obtuse to truncate at base, entire (7)-10-20 cm long; lateral leaflets somewhat smaller than terminal; stipules lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, caducous; stipels c. 1 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, clustered at tips of branches, clothed in brown medifixed hairs when young; flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate, subtended by caducous bracteoles. Calyx spathe-like, bilbiate, or irregularly shallowly toothed. Standard scarlet, c. 50-60 mm long, wings and keel c. 1/2 length of standard, orange to pale orange; filaments mauve. Pods not formed. (Webb et al 1988).
- Similar species : Can be distinguished from E. crista-galli by the axillary inflorescences clothed in brown hairs, the keel roughly 1/2 the length of the standard, and the leaves broadly ovate to deltoid (hairy when young).
- Flowering time in New Zealand: August, September, October.
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- Comments on Lifecycle : Perennial.
- Reproduction : Cuttings and dropped branches take root easily.
- Seed : Not seen as this is a sterile hybrid (Likely parents are E. coralloides and E. lysistemon)
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