Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details

This hybrid is derived from a cross between Erythrina crista-galli and Erythrina fusca produced 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). This sterile hybrid produces attractive bright red flowers but does not produce fruit or seed.

Known only in cultivation, from Hawaii and Micronesia.

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

• T024321 - collected by D. J. Mabberly in 1998
• 051913 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2010