Cherokee Lily Plants and Bulbs [Erythrina herbacea]
The Cherokee Lily grows wild in the Southern U.S. making it a very low maintenance garden flower. Long stems begin sprouting from the ground in April and can reach 6 feet tall with a large cluster of long tubular flowers at the top. Arrow shaped leaves appear later in the season. Hummingbirds are attracted to the long, bright red flowers of the Cherokee Lily and are often seen feeding on its nectar.
As the flowering proceeds day after day, the scarce, endangered hummingbirds are attracted to the red trumpets of the Cherokee Bean (Coral Bean) Lily Flowering Bulbs for nectar - their favorite food that is used to fuel their wings, that flutter along at 250 miles per hour.
The leaves of the Cherokee Bean (Coral Bean) Lily Flowering Bulbs are trifoliate, just like peas, beans and others legumes, and are classified as a nitrogenous generator, one that stores nitrogen.
Cherokee Lily Plants and Bulbs price(s):
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Cherokee Lily Plants and Bulbs price(s):
Quart Seedling
$7.95
Blooming Size
$29.95
Recommended zones for Cherokee Lily Plants and Bulbs:
Zone 8
(10° to 20° )
Zone 9
(20° to 30° )
Zone 10
(30° to 40° )
The 1 gallon Cherokee Bean Bulb will grow to flowering size the following Spring.
The blooming of the Cherokee Bean (Coral Bean) Lily Flowering Bulbs continues into July and even later in states North of Florida. You can buy your Cherokee Bean (Coral Bean) Lily Flowering Bulbs from the TyTy Nursery today!
The Cherokee Bean (Coral Bean) Lily Flowering Bulb plant is native to the United States and is grown primarily for the showy, spectacular 6 foot red stems of flowers, which begin to rise into the air in April.
The Cherokee Bean Lily is also known as the Coral Bean Lily and the Cardinal Spear. The Cherokee Bean Lily is considered one of the most outstanding native American landscape plants by some plant botanists. In the Southern U.S. The Cherokee Bean Lily, Erythrina herbacea, produces scarlet-red 3-5 feet flowers in cone shaped clusters that rise on rust colored stems that rapidly lengthen before the foliage appears.
Some reports claim that the Cherokee Bean is poisonous, however, it is well documented that the Cherokee Indian tribes used the bean to treat various stomach problems, and the leaves and roots were also used to treat aliments.
The Cherokee Bean bulb (rhizome) can grow into a large woody mass the size of a man's head, and the root is quite difficult to dig up from the woodlands to plant in a home garden, but the bulb shows very little transplant shock and is a choice garden treasure, whether recovered from the wild or purchased from a mail order nursery.
Several flower stalks can arise from the central bulb (rhizome) at once or periodically. In Georgia the flowers begin appearing in early May and can continue into the summer. The flowers of the Cherokee Bean Lily, after being pollinated by a hummingbird or butterfly will develop into a bean pod that opens later in the Summer attached to the stem of the Cherokee Bean plant with a display of shiny red beans that are often taken indoors to use for Winter, dried flower displays.
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