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scientific_name:
Caesalpinia gilliesii
taxon_meaning_id:
467
species description:
Common names: Bird-of-paradise (English)
Origin: Argentina
Description
Spreading shrub or small tree up to 2 m high, deciduous to semi-deciduous. Young branches maroon. Leaves feathery, twice-compound. Flowers very attractive, carried in sprays at branch tips; petals bright yellow with ten prominently protruding, long, red stamens. Pods densely covered in short, reddish, glandular hairs.
Discussion
Easily grown garden plant that has escaped into dry rivers.
Bird reported from Namibia but no unequivocal evidence:
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