Gaby Chaudry wrote:
Dear all,

on Monday I bought a plant in a supermarket (yes, I admit, I did....) and it
had a very informative plate saying: "Green in Greek ceramics" ...
Here it is:

http://www.gaby.de/bilder/identify/unknown.htm

Actually, they put three plants in the pot, each one growing from a big
greenish pip. At first sight I thought "Avocado or Mango", but the plants
are different. They have odd-pinnate leaves with 5 to 9 leaflets. The
leaflets look a bit like the leaves of a Ficus benjamini, only larger.
I looked through all tropical fruit trees with big fruits or nuts, but none
of them was similar to my plant....

Can anybody help?
Thanks a bunch in advance!!!

Gaby

At Lowes they are labled Lucky Bean tree's. Erythrina or Coral tree.
Yours is E. Caffra or Cape kaffirboom, or Lucky Bean Tree. : Wide
spreading, semi-evergreen tree with sometimes prickley branches, and
prickly-stalked leaves divided into 3 broadly ovate leaflets, the
longest into 3 1/2 inches long. In spring, bears dense, terminal
racemes, to six inches long of orange,-scarlet flowers two inches long,
with broad, strongly arching standard petals. Can grow in Florida and
warmer climates 40-60 foot tall. Not hardy below 41o F. ( I found this
in my American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia A-Z and looked under
Lucky Bean, which was what I knew it was from your photo)
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountian in Eastern Tennessee,zone 7, Sunset zone 36