Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock or use in a row

or use in a row for year-round structure and privacy

First collected in 1892 near Henderson

a diminutive that means little more than 'small tree

We continue to make rare plants like this available

Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock or use in a rowA relic of the old Southern wilds, Erythrina herbacea, the coral bean, is a plant that commands attention, graceful yet defiant, wild yet refined. A legume native across the coastal Southeast, the coral bean shifts habit with the winter: in frost free zones the plant grows as a woody shrub, branching boldly above the ground, while farther north the top dies down with the first hard freeze, only to rise again from a thick, gnarled rootstock when the