Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-   	Plate No. 995

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-COMMON_NAMES-Barbadoes Flower-fence
-GENUS-Poinciana
-SPECIES-Poinciana pulcherrima
-CLASS-Decandria
-ORDER-Monogynia
-AUTHORITY-Linnaeus
-MODERN_GENUS-Caesalpinia
-MODERN_SPECIES-Caesalpinia pulcherrima
-MODERN_FAMILY- Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae. Also placed in Caesalpiniaceae.
-PLANT_TYPE-shrub or small tree
-COLOR-orange-red or yellow-orange
-SEASON- Tropical, "Cannot be preserved out of the stove."
-NATIVE_REGION- "Although common in the West Indies, but it was probably imported
                into Barbadoes from the Cape de Verd Islands."
-ZONE-9
-SOURCE-The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME-25
-PUB_DATE-1807
-REISSUED-__
-EDITOR-John Sims
-ARTIST-S. Edwards, Sansum
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