Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

This hybrid is derived from a cross between Erythrina crista-galli and Erythrina fusca made by David Neill at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. It is described and beautifully illustrated as a watercolor paining by Geraldine King Tam in the book "Paradisus: Hawaiian Plant Watercolors" published by the Honolulu Academy of Arts (1998). It is a sterile hybrid with abundant, showy flowers and produces messy no fruit or seed.

Known only from cultivation.

We currently have 2 herbarium specimens for Erythrina ×malottorum in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.

• T014921 - collected by David H. Lorence in 1992
• 073393 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2014