The coral bean is a deciduous, lanky, small tree with beautiful dark red blooms making it a striking garden accent. You can find it growing in the xeriscape area at the Master Gardener Victoria ...

Hawaii's wiliwili trees and tropical coral bean trees are commonly used for landscaping, soil and water conservation, and as windbreaks. As larvae, gall wasps feed inside the leaves, making them ...

Propagate with cuttings. Distantly related to lancepod is the common coral tree (Erythrina lysistemon) from Southeast Africa. Also called lucky bean tree, this deciduous species, which grows at ...

These plants, including the Erythrina species, produce bean-like seed pods following ... This characteristic adds to the appeal of growing a common coral tree. The common coral tree makes an ...

Dear Neil: Our friend has this plant growing in her yard in South Texas. What is it, and what care advice does she need to have to maintain it? This is a fairly uncommon plant called fireman’s ...

Spikes of red flowers are produced in the spring. It grows in full sun to partial shade. Coral bean trees attract humming birds, are salt and drought tolerant and tolerate a wide range of pH ...

Coral bean is an incredibly versatile plant. Left alone and in the right conditions, it can grow to the size of a small tree. Trimmed back, it works well as a border or mass planting and in ...

In 2012, a crop of California's most prized ornamental trees was overrun by an invisible invader. The growing shoots of coral beans — the official city tree of Los Angeles — began wilting and ...