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    Erythrina herbacea coll. #A3LA-078

    Coral Bean

    This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.

    Shop Available Erythrina

    Item #: 5860

    Zones: 7b to 9b, at least

    Dormancy: Winter

    Height: 48" tall

    Culture: Sun to Part Sun

    Origin: United States

    Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


    This selection of the spectacular Southeast native coral bean is from seed collected in Marion Co., Texas on our 2004 expedition. This particularly tall form was collected along a dry dirt road, where it seemed quite happy. E. herbacea makes a huge underground storage root, so plant it where you want it to stay. In late spring, the green spikes of three-lobed leaves emerge upward. Soon after the leaves unfurl, the terminal spikes of bright red pokers strut their stuff. If your town is too small for traffic lights, hang the flowers upside down in each intersection...voila, redneck stop lights. Hot and dry and you've got the growing conditions figured out.