Erabadu (එරබදු)

Erabadu has the widest distribution of any Erythrina species; it is the only one found in both the New and Old World. It grows on coasts and along rivers in tropical Asia, Oceania, the Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Africa, and the Neotropics.
The easy-to-grow and attractive flowering tree is cultivated as an ornamental shade and hedge plant. It is a common shade tree in cacao plantations. It attracts hummingbirds, which pollinate its flowers.
E. fusca(erabadu) is the official flower of the Venezuelan state of Trujillo. The tree is highly adapted to coastal conditions, tolerant of both flooding and salinity.

Height : 27 m tall

Leaves : Leafless or leaves at flowering the rachis about 4 cm long, stipels are deciduous; and globose

Related medicinal properties : Appetizer, Reduces fat in the body

Leaflets : broadly ovate to deltoid, to about 11X12 cm

Flower : spiny bark and light orange

Fruit : indehiscent, dark, somewhat woody, turgid, linear to narrowly oblong with the stipe about 2 cm long
Edible parts : The new buds and leaves are eaten as a vegetable. In Thailand fresh Erythrina fusca leaves are often eaten in Miang kham

Ayurvedic usage : Ear diseases, Insomnia, Swellings, Wounds, Worm diseases, Epilepsy, Fevers, Coughs, Rheumatoid arthritis, Dysmenorrhea, Infertility, Constipation, Dysuria