Delonix regia

The royal poinciana tree is in the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to Madigascar. It is grown in many tropical parts of the world as an ornamental tree.

• Leaves are compound (doubly pinnate), light, bright green, with a feathery appearance. Each leaf is 30–50 cm long with 20–40 pairs of primary leaflets (pinnae), each divided into 10–20 pairs of secondary leaflets (pinnules).
• Flowers are large, with 4 spreading scarlet or orange-red petals up to 8 cm long, and a 5th upright petal called the standard, which is slightly larger and spotted with yellow and white. They appear in corymbs along and at the ends of branches.
• Seed pods are green, up o 60 cm long and 5 cm wide, flaccid when young, turning dark-brown and woody.