Botanical name |
Erythrina zeyheri |
Other names |
Ploegbreker (Afrikaans); prickly cardinal |
Family |
Papilionoideae |
Dimensions |
The visible plant parts above ground may die away annually in winter; a suffrutex (or tree with an underground trunk) |
Description of stem |
Large underground woody rootstock from which new shoots and flowers emerge annually |
Description of leaves |
Trifoliate with spikes or prickles on some leaf surfaces and petioles |
Description of flowers |
Flowerhead a triangular terminal raceme with bright red pendulous, tubular individual flowers |
Description of seed/fruit |
A cylindrical pod with about five bright red hard seeds |
Description of roots |
Large tuberous rootstock |
Variation |
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Propagation and cultivation |
Transplants easily |
Tolerances |
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Uses |
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Ecological rarity |
Common |
Pests and diseases |
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Other |
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Location |
Grassland, clay soil, often in wet vlei areas |
Distribution (SA provinces) |
Mpumalanga; Northwest; KwaZulu-Natal; Free State |
Country |
South Africa |
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