It looks like an erythrina... not sure which one.

Should be erythrina crista-galli

Thank you very much. Like the flower, I will learn more about this plant.

There are more varieties of erythrina... I have a hybrid that doesn't set seed and is GLORIOUSLY red! :o) There's one I saw in Mexico that has truly uniquely variegated leaves, along with fire engine flowers.

I'm not sure what it is, but it is NOT Erythrina crista-galli. The leaf shape is entirely wrong.

yeah... it's not looking good for crista-galli. If you could tell us WHERE you found it, it would be easier to identify. Now that I have been hunting, I have a serious WANT for a erythrina wiliwili! :o)

I think the flowers are indeed Erythrina crista-galli,
but there is a vine entwined in the branches, hence
the wrong leaves...

Here's the flower of Erythrina crista-galli

And here's the leaf of Erythrina crista-galli

hmmm...that looks different than this... does different locations make different leaves?

Here is a link that might be useful: Crista-galli

Based on the elliptic-shaped leaves, the pendulent flower spike, the look that the younger flowers (undersides) are a bit more pinking/salmon, then opening to a deeper red with that cup-shaped calyx, lends it to be E. crista-galli. Thorns on crista-galli point backwards, too. Granted, it could already be a hybrid, but perhaps just a genetic variation that has this one with lighter-colored flowers.

Fawn, unless E. crista-galli has amazingly different juvenile foliage, the rhombus-pointed leaves on what you have much more resembles that of a parent of E. herbacea. In your photo of the flower, does the lower (older) flowers actually unfurl to reveal a two-part flower of a tubular part with the cup-shaped calyx? Yours also holds it's flower spike upright, unlike that of E. crista-galli.

Heck, that may even be E. X bidwillii

Heathen, have you seen that variegated erythrina here in Florida since? I wonder if you saw Erythrina variegata var variegata (called SUnshine Tree).

I'll add my vote for E. crista-galli, which has been a popular tree in my area for longer than I can remember, and is now invading swampy creek lines to an alarming extent.

The only other species with this flower shape is E. falcata, but that has a different inflorescence.

As for fawnridge's pic, it looks just like all the pictures of E. herbacea I have seen. I don't believe it can be E. x bidwillii, as that is another one I am very familiar with (It actually originated in the Sydney region in the 1830s and has been around in local gardens ever since, though now uncommon). Its flowers are closer to its herbacea parent though larger and showier, but its leaflets are not so strongly 3-lobed.

You might be right about Erythrina herbacea. My screw up on the species.

I was just lurking when I saw this thread. I grow all 3 plants plus 3 other varieties of erythrinas. The first is E. christa galli, followed by E. herbacea.
I posted a picture of my E. bidwilli on the Louisiana & Mississippi forum on the thread "What kind of Tropical Trees do you grow?" if anyone would like to see it. It bloomed even after the storm took off half of the top ( before that it was reaching the tallest part of my house). It has never set seed for me b/c I beleive the sulfur butterfly lays it eggs on the leaves and the buggers use it as a food source.
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