Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Shrub to 3-4 m tall, the branches with short scattered prickles. Leaves alternate bipinnate, pinnae 4-8 pairs, each with 7-11 pairs of elliptic, obtuse, obliquely inequilateral light green leaflets about 2-2.5 cm long, flowers red-and-yellow, or (var. flava) all yellow, the petals crinkly-edged, in long terminal racemes, filaments longer than petals, red, pod coriaceous, oblong, smooth, brown to black, to 10 cm long, several-seeded, seeds compressed, brown, usually 6-8 per pod [Stone, 1970].