Erythrina poeppigiana
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Erythrina Poeppigiana, Cook (Micropteryx Poeppigiana, Wain. E. Micropteryx, Poepp.). Bucare. Used for shading coffee and cacao in the W. Indies: tree 40-60 ft., the prickles short: Lvs. large, apparently not prickly; lfts. broad, entire, with nectaries at base of the 2 lower petiolules: fls. cinnabar-red; calyx truncate; standard plane, elliptic or narrow-oval, to 1⅞ in. long; wings small, about twice exceeding the calyx, obovate or oval-elliptic; keel scarcely shorter than standard, arctuate. Probably Peruvian.-Offered in S. Fla. The E. umbrosa of the W. Indies is probably this species. CH
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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