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Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.

Synonym: Poiciana coriaria Jacq., Caesalpinia thomea Spreng.

CAESALPINIOIDEAE

Local Names : American Sumac.

Flowering Period : September to March 

Distribution : Native of the West Indies and Central America

Uses: Tannin source, Red Dye, Firewood.

Exotic : Yes

  

Trees; branchlets warty. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; stipules minute; rachis, slender, pulvinate; pinnae 8-16 pairs, subopposite , slender, pubescent; leaflets 24-44, sessile, opposite. Flowers bisexual, creamy, in axillary and terminal panicles; calyx tube campanulate, short; petals 5, ovate-orbicular, clawed subequal; stamens 10, declinate; filaments subequal , basally villous; ovary half inferior, stipitate , glabrous; style suberect; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod; twisted.