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Cape kafferboom

DEFINITIONS OF: Cape kafferboom

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n small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles

Synonyms:
Erythrina caffra, kaffir boom
Type of:
coral tree, erythrina
any of various shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental
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