A reply: "Most probably this is Blake's Coral Tree. But there is an interesting story behind *E. bidwillii* and* E. blakei*: “*BLAKEI*” the origin of this hybrid, c. 1840, is attributed to John Carne Bidwill, Government Botanist and first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney (1847-48), as a cross between *E. herbacea* (female) and *E. crista-galli* (male). However, one of his friends may have been responsible. Specimens were sent to William Herbert of Manchester, England, in the 1840s and it was later widely distributed by the famous Veitch NSY in London. It is described in the monograph on *Erythina* as, ‘the best know and biologically most successful hybrid *Erythrina*,’ which adds, ‘it seems likely that not all the races grown today under the name are descendants of the original cross’. There is some variation in the size of the flowers and the intensity of their colouration and it is evidently more popular in cultivation outside Australia. Plants selected from the original cross and listed in the Camden Park (NSW) catalogue of 1845 (as *E. camdeni*) are perhaps best known as the clone ‘Camdenensis’, because a second seedling of the same cross was later selected and named after Camden Park gardener, Edmund Blake, and listed in the 1850 Camden catalogue as *E.* ‘ *Blakei*”. The former selection has not been clearly identified and the latter selection, under the Cultivated Plant Code, is best referred to as *E. X bidwillii* ‘*Blakei’*. *E. X blakei* is a name of no botanical standing. *Reference: Clough, R. (1992). Mr Bidwill's Erythrina. Austral. Gard. Hist. 3(4): 10.* Kind regards, Varun"
Thanks, Varun ji. On 19 March 2017 at 10:28, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Appears close to the images at *Erythrina bidwillii *Lindl. > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/f/fabaceae/erythrina/erythrina-bidwillii> > / *Erythrina blakei *R.Parker > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/f/fabaceae/erythrina/erythrina-blakei> > as per images herein in efi (to me both appears to me the same species). > Pl. see the thread > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/Erythrina$20AND$20bidwillii/indiantreepix/A7w4SBA6_XM> > . > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> > Date: 31 October 2014 at 10:11 > Subject: [efloraofindia:204754] Erythrina For ID : California : 31OCT14 : > AK-47 > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Gurcharan Singh < > [email protected]>, Vijayasankar Raman <[email protected]> > > > Cultivated Erythrina Species seen in Fremont, California on the 9th Oct,14. > Small tree with red flowers in a home garden. > Erythrina blakei? > Kindly confirm id. > Aarti > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
