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, 05:07, 11 November 2007== Summary == {{Information |Description=Erythrina x sykesii (Coral tree) in flower, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 October 2006 |Source=photograph by author |Date=6 October 2006 |Author=Kahuroa |Permission=Own work, no rights retained, all rights released |oth
== Summary ==
{{Information
|Description=Erythrina x sykesii (Coral tree) in flower, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 October 2006
|Source=photograph by author
|Date=6 October 2006
|Author=Kahuroa
|Permission=Own work, no rights retained, all rights released
|other_versions=
}}
: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.
:Fruiting time :
: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)
[[Category:Flowers]]
[[Category:Files by User:Kahuroa]]
== Licensing ==
{{PD-self}}
[[Category:Erythrina x sykesii]]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ErythrinaXsykesii.JPG
{{Information
|Description=Erythrina x sykesii (Coral tree) in flower, Auckland, New Zealand, 6 October 2006
|Source=photograph by author
|Date=6 October 2006
|Author=Kahuroa
|Permission=Own work, no rights retained, all rights released
|other_versions=
}}
: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.
:Fruiting time :
: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)
[[Category:Flowers]]
[[Category:Files by User:Kahuroa]]
== Licensing ==
{{PD-self}}
[[Category:Erythrina x sykesii]]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ErythrinaXsykesii.JPG