Erythrina herbacea
11th July 2014
A low growing species from the southern states of the USA and northern Mexico. It can make a small tree
but it usually cut back to the ground and seen as a suckering shrub. I was given a seedling by a friend
and I keep it warm and dry (probably a bit too dry) in the hope of getting flowers in the summer.
20th July 2015
In habitat it flowers early in the summer on overwintering growth but with me it produced a late head of flowers
after a warm spring period when it grew well.
23rd August 2018