Fabaceae
Cockspur coral tree
Erythrina crista-galli
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Erythrina
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Common names
By language (23)
- arz
- اريثرينا كريستا جالى
- Cantonese
- 雞關刺桐
- Catalan
- Eritrina cresta de gall, Seibo
- Chinese
- 雞冠刺桐, 鸡冠刺桐, 海红豆, 象牙花, 賽波樹, 賽波花
- Czech
- Zarděnice hřebenitá
- English
- Cockspur coral tree, Crybabytree, National Flower of Uruguay
- Finnish
- Kukonkorallipuu
- French
- Bucare, Bucaré, Ceibo, Ceïbo
- German
- Korallenbaum
- Hebrew
- אלמוגן כרבולתי, אלמוגן כריסטה גלי
- hsb
- Kórarjownik
- Hungarian
- Tarajos korallfa
- Indonesian
- Dadap merah
- Japanese
- アメリカデイゴ, アメリカディゴ, アメリカデイコ, カイコウズ, セイボ, 海紅豆
- Lithuanian
- Argentininė raudūnė, Gaidžio skiauterė, Seiba
- Malayalam
- എറിത്രീന ക്രിസ്റ്റ-ഗാലി
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Korallbusk, Ceibo
- Occitan
- Ceibo
- Persian
- اریترینا کریستاگالی, اریترینا کریستا گالی, درخت مرجان
- Portuguese
- Corticeira, Corticeira-do-banhado, Muchoco
- Russian
- Эритрина петушиный гребень
- Spanish
- Árbol del coral, Bucare, Bucaré, Ceibo, Erithrina cristagalli, Erythrina crista–galli var. hasskarlii, Seibo, Seíbo
- Vietnamese
- Vông mồng gà
Synonyms
- Corallodendron crista-galli (L.) Kuntze
- Erythrina compacta W.Bull
- Erythrina crista-galli var. corallina N.F.Mattos
- Erythrina crista-galli var. crista-galli
- Erythrina crista-galli var. hasskarlii Backer
- Erythrina crista-galli var. laurifolia (Jacq.) Tod.
- Erythrina crista-galli var. leucochlora Lombardo
- Erythrina crista-galli var. longiflora M.A.Zapater & E.C.Lozano
- Erythrina crista-galli var. speciosa Tod.
- Erythrina fasciculata Benth.
- Erythrina graefferi Tineo
- Erythrina laurifolia Jacq.
- Erythrina pulcherrima Tod.
- Erythrina speciosa Tod.
- Micropteryx cristagalli (L.) Walp.
- Micropteryx fasciculata (Benth.) Walp.
- Micropteryx laurifolia (Jacq.) Walp.
Flowers
- In flower
- October to April (from 1,093 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Rafael Tosi, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Patrice Dupont, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Cecilia C. Morgan, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: vinicius_s_domingues, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Pablo Bombín, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Richard Fuller, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Tatters ❀ from Brisbane, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.