Sesbania punicea

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Width: 4 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
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Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: red, orange, yellow, pink
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Read about Sesbania punicea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Sesbania punicea, Benth. (Daubentonia punicea, DC.). Shrub or small tree, several feet high, somewhat glaucous and glabrous: lfts. commonly 8-9 pairs, 1/2 - 3/4 in. long, narrowly oblong; stipules small: fls. 8-10 lines long, bright red-purple, in lax racemes; calyx truncate, teeth small; standard broadly rotundate: pod 2-4 in. long, thick, 4-angled, wings leathery, about 2 lines broad. Brazil. —Intro. into S. Calif. CH


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