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Bat’s Wing Coral Tree
Erythrina vespertilio
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
Send An EnquiryYou order. We do the rest.
After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Bat’s Wing Coral Tree - Erythrina vespertilio
Few Australian trees are as instantly identifiable as Erythrina vespertilio, whose leaflets are shaped like a bat in flight, splayed wide and notched at the tip. It is a genuinely dry country tree, dropping its leaves through the cool or dry season and then firing scarlet to orange pea flowers along the bare branches. Where a garden needs a sculptural, drought hardened feature rather than year round green, this is the specimen that carries it.
Why Bat’s Wing Coral Tree
Leaf Silhouette: The bat wing leaflet shape is unique among Australian trees and reads clearly even at a distance.
Bare Wood Flowering: Scarlet to orange flowers appear on leafless branches in late winter and spring, drawing lorikeets and honeyeaters.
Drought Hardiness: A thickened trunk and deep roots let it hold through long rainless periods once established.
Corky Trunk: Older trees develop a fissured, corky, often prickly trunk with real sculptural presence.
Winter Light: Because it is deciduous, it lets winter sun reach the house or garden beneath it.
Ideal Applications
Dry garden feature tree: The centrepiece of a gravel, arid or native dry country planting scheme.
Rural and acreage specimen: Handles unirrigated paddock edges and homestead surrounds across inland Australia.
Northern shade tree: Gives light dappled summer shade and opens up completely for the dry season.
Habitat planting: Nectar rich flowers and hollow forming timber support birds and native bees.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not a screening subject; allow 5 to 6m if planted in a line
Spacing (feature/avenue): 8 to 10m centres
Best Planting Season: Spring to early summer, or the start of the wet season in the north
Soil & Drainage: Sandy, gravelly or loamy soils with sharp drainage; it will not tolerate heavy wet clay
Establishment Care: Water fortnightly through the first two summers only, since overwatering does more damage than drought to this species. Mulch with coarse gravel or chunky bark and keep the trunk base dry and clear.
Plant Details
Height: 6 to 12m
Width: 4 to 8m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Widespread across northern and inland Australia, extending into Queensland and New South Wales
Flower Colour: Scarlet to orange red
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







