. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 134 â L eguminoscBâErythrina. 27. ERYTHRlNA. Trees or shrubs, branches often thick and beset with prickles. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Flowers showy, usually bright scarlet, in terminal racemes. Standard petal larger and longer than the wings and keel. Calyx spathaceous, truncate, rarely almost equally 5-toothed. Pod stalked. About twenty-five speci
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 134 â L eguminoscBâErythrina. 27. ERYTHRlNA. Trees or shrubs, branches often thick and beset with prickles. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Flowers showy, usually bright scarlet, in terminal racemes. Standard petal larger and longer than the wings and keel. Calyx spathaceous, truncate, rarely almost equally 5-toothed. Pod stalked. About twenty-five species are distributed over the warmer regions. The name is from spvdpof, red, the prevalent colour of the flowers. None of the Coral trees are hardy, but some of them will succeed in sheltered places if treated as herbaceous, and cut down each season. 1. E. Crista-gdlli (fig. 75).âIn its native country this is arborescent, but it will throw up annual flowering stems about. Fit;. 75. EiytUriiia Crista-gani. (J nat. size.) dcop scarlet, and the leaves 6 or 8 feet high. The flowers art have a glaucous tinge. A native of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hemsley, W. Botting (William Botting), 1843-1924; Decaisne, J. (Joseph) Manuel de l'amateur des jardins. Boston, Estes & Lauriat
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