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Erythrina senegalensis Dc.

Species

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Characteristics

A tree. It grows 15 m high. It has a corky bark with prickles that curve back. The flowers are large and red.
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Conspicuous with scarlet flowers, usually when leafless; standard petal folded flat
Usually a small tree, 10–15 ft. but sometimes attaining a height of 40–50 ft.
Armed with stout prickles slightly recurved from a woody base
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 8.0 - 15.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Burned savannah; marigot edges; plateaux with fine gravel; degraded regrowths; sandy colluvium; coastal savannah; at elevations from near sea-level to 1,200 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in woodland, savannah woodland and wet grass savannah. In XTBG Yunnan.
In savannah country and commonly planted as a hedge.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use fetish fiber food forage fuel hedge manure material medicinal ornamental poison social use vertebrate poison wood
Edible barks
Therapeutic use Blennorrhagia (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 10 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Flower

Erythrina senegalensis flower picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)
Erythrina senegalensis flower picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Erythrina senegalensis world distribution map, present in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, and Togo

Conservation status

Erythrina senegalensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:494578-1
WFO ID wfo-0000181131
COL ID 6GRYY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Erythrina senegalensis Erythrina guineensis Duchassaingia senegalensis Chirocalyx latifolius Erythrina latifolia Macrocymbium vogelii Corallodendron senegalense
WorldFloraDB 2024