page_title: Erythrina
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Erythrina / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Funchal_-_Erythrina_abyssinica_(Korallenbaum)
context_page_description: Erythrina is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. They are trees, with the larger species growing up to 30 m in height. The generic name is derived from the Greek word ερυθρóς, meaning "red", referring to the flower color of certain species.
context_section_description: Erythrina abyssinica Lam. ex DC. (East Africa)
  Erythrina americana Mill. – Colorín, Tzompāmitl (Mexico)
  Erythrina ankaranensis Du Puy & Labat (Madagascar)
  Erythrina atitlanensis Krukoff & Barneby
  Erythrina berteroana Urb.
  Erythrina burana Chiov. (Ethiopia)
  Erythrina caffra Thunb. – Coastal coral tree (Southeastern Africa)
  Erythrina corallodendron L. (Hispaniola, Jamaica)
  Erythrina coralloides D.C. – Flame coral tree, naked coral tree (Arizona in the United States, Mexico)
  Erythrina crista-galli L. – Cockspur coral tree, ceibo, seíbo, bucaré (Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay)
  Erythrina decora Harms
  Erythrina edulis Micheli – Basul (Andes)
  Erythrina eggersii Krukoff & Moldenke – Cock's-spur, espuela de gallo, piñón espinoso (United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico)
  Erythrina elenae Howard & Briggs (Cuba)
  Erythrina euodiphylla Hassk. ex Backh. (Indonesia)
  Erythrina falcata Benth. – Brazilian coral tree (Brazil)
  Erythrina flabelliformis Kearney
  Erythrina fusca Lour. – Purple coral tree, bois immortelle, bucaré anauco, bucayo, gallito (Pantropical)
  Erythrina haerdii Verdc. (Tanzania)
  Erythrina hazomboay Du Puy & Labat (Madagascar)
  Erythrina herbacea L. – Coral bean, Cherokee bean, red cardinal, cardinal spear (Southeastern United States, Northeastern Mexico)
  Erythrina humeana Spreng. – Natal coral tree, dwarf coral tree, dwarf kaffirboom, dwarf erythrina (South Africa)
  Erythrina lanceolata Standl.
  Erythrina latissima E.Mey.
  Erythrina lysistemon Hutch. – Common coral tree, Transvaal kaffirboom, lucky bean tree (South Africa)
  Erythrina madagascariensis Du Puy & Labat (Madagascar)
  Erythrina megistophylla (Ecuador)
  Erythrina mexicana (Mexico)
  Erythrina mulungu Diels Mart. – Mulungu (Brazil)
  Erythrina orophila Ghesq.
  Erythrina perrieri R.Viguier (Madagascar)
  Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) O.F.Cook – bucare ceibo
  Erythrina polychaeta Harms (Ecuador)
  Erythrina rubrinervia Kunth
  Erythrina sacleuxii Hua (Kenya, Tanzania)
  Erythrina sandwicensis O.Deg. – Wiliwili (Hawaii)
  Erythrina schimpffii Diels (Ecuador)
  Erythrina schliebenii Harms – Lake Latumba Erythrina (Thought to be extinct since 1938, but some individuals, believed to be less than fifty, were recently rediscovered in forest remnants on rocky sites in coastal Tanzania (reported in the UK Guardian newspaper 23 March 2012, from a report in the Journal of East African Natural History.)
  Erythrina senegalensis DC.
  Erythrina speciosa Andrews (Brazil)
  Erythrina stricta Roxb. – Mandara (Southeast Asia)
  Erythrina suberosa Roxb.
  Erythrina subumbrans Miq.
  Erythrina tahitensis Nadeaud (Tahiti)
  Erythrina tholloniana
  Erythrina tuxtlana Krukoff & Barneby (Mexico)
  Erythrina variegata L. – Indian coral tree, tiger's claw, sunshine tree, roluos tree (Cambodia), deigo (Okinawa), drala (Fiji), madar (Bangladesh), man da ra ba (Tibet), thong lang (Thailand), vông nem (Vietnam)
  Erythrina velutina Willd. (Caribbean, South America, Galápagos Islands)
  Erythrina vespertilio Benth. – Bat's wing coral tree, grey corkwood, "bean tree" (Australia)
  Erythrina zeyheri Harv. – Ploughbreaker
  Horticultural hybrids:
  Erythrina ×bidwillii Lindl.
  Erythrina ×sykesii Barneby & Krukoff
caption: Erythrina abyssinica in flower, Funchal (Madeira)
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