1. 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
   - kaffir boom, Erythrina caffra

Type of: coral tree, erythrina

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