Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Erythrina crista-galli
Common name
Cockspur coraltree
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Urban bushland, along waterways, and in swamps and wetlands. Mainly in the Sydney area north from Royal National Park, and the Blue Mountains. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced deciduous shrub or small tree to 6 m high or more. Small prickles on trunk, branches, stems, and leaf stalks. Bark moderately rough. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5-10 cm long, compound, with 3 leaflets each 3–6 cm long, 20–50 mm wide, hairless. Flowers 40-50 mm long, red, pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel, in clusters of 20-40 flowers.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Erythrina~crista-galli (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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