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Products > Erythrina coralloides 'Bicolor'
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| Category: Tree |
| Family: Fabaceae = Pea Family |
| Origin: Mexico (North America) |
| Bloomtime: Spring |
| Height: 20-30 feet |
| Exposure: Full Sun |
| Summer Dry: Yes |
| Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs |
| Winter Hardiness: 20-25° F |
| May be Poisonous (More Info): Yes |
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Erythrina coralloides 'Bicolor' (Naked Coral Tree) - This interesting form of the common Naked Coral Tree has white flower clusters, red flower clusters and mixed colored clusters on the same plant from February to June. It is quite a stunning sight. As with the typical form, this deciduous tree from Mexico grows to 20-30 feet and is useful in a sunny dry garden where its sculptural mustard-brown trunk and thorny stems crowned with clusters of flowers can be best appreciated. Hardy to frosts to the mid 20's° F. We have long wondered where this tree originally hailed from. Our plants came from a single plant that Lotusland Botanic Garden donated to the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society for a plant sale held in 1984 or 1985. Lotusland never accessioned the plant and it there was never a planting of it in their garden. There is speculation that this unique plant with some flowers white and others red is a sectorial chimera with two genetically distinct tissue types together within the same stem. The Huntington Botanic Garden had a similar (maybe the same) plant located in the garden near the Oxford gate (Huntington Accession # 49424). Their records had the plant coming to them in 1984 from Melchior Camarillo of San Fernando Valley. Sadly this plant at the Huntington Botanic Garden no longer exists, but there is a nice specimen of it planted near the adminstration building (Cheadle Hall) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which also has one of the best collections of coral trees in California.
The information about Erythrina coralloides 'Bicolor' displayed on this page is based on research conducted in our nursery library and from online sources we consider reliable. We will also relate those observations made of this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and in other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has additional information, particularly when they share cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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