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Erythrina speciosa 'Pink' (Pink Coral Tree) - This is a deciduous small tree or multi-stemmed shrub to about 16 feet tall and typically growing wider that tall with large broad leaves that are hairy when young and narrow pale pink flowers that can appear just about anytime from late winter through fall - flowers in winter and spring often blooming on naked stems much like the Naked Coral Tree, Erythrina coralloides. Plant in full sun with regular to occasional irrigation. It has proven cold hardy to at least 28 F at our nursery.
Erythrina speciosa comes from southeastern Brazil where it is found growing in swampy areas or along watercourses. The species is typically red flowering, but this pink flowering form was growing at the San Diego Zoo and we were given cuttings of it in the late 1980s and we have grown and sold it since the year 2000. To distinguish as different from the red flowering Erythrina speciosa we also grew at that time we just called it 'Pink' but note that there also is the name Erythrina speciosa var. rosea that had been used for a pink flowering variant of the species, though we are not sure these are the same plants. There is a nice specimen tree that was purchased from us in a raised planted at the entrance to the Recreation Department facility building on the University of California Santa Barbara campus.
The information displayed on this page about Erythrina speciosa 'Pink' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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