Pimenta racemosa
Tree of up to 15 m in height with grey to light brown bark that breaks off into thin sheets. Leaves elliptic, oblong or obovate,
obtuse at the base and emarginate at the apex, glabrous with finely reticulate venation, glandular-punctate. Corymbose, terminal or subterminal panicles; white or pink, glandular flowers with numerous stamens; calyx with 5 lobes, broadly triangular. Ovoid fruit of up to 1 cm, black when ripe.
Pimenta racemosa var. ozua
Tree of up to 20 m, very aromatic. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblong from 6 to 12 cm, obtuse at the apex, rounded to acute at the base, coriaceous. Cymose inflorescences, 3 flowers or 2 times trichomes, up to 9 flowers. Globose, glabrous, glandular berries.
Pimenta dioica
Tree of up to 20 m; smooth and straight trunk. Opposite, coriaceous, ovate or elliptical leaves of up to 20 cm long, very aromatic. Panicles of about 12 cm in length with many flowers; flowers mostly grouped at the tip of the inflorescence, sessile; calyx with 4 rounded lobes, puberulous; white suborbicular petals; numerous white stamens. Aromatic fruit, generally subglobose, verrucose, with two suborbicular seeds.
Petiveria alliacea
Herbaceous or perennial subshrub of up to 1 m high, with a foul smell. Alternate leaves, oblong to elliptic, acute to acuminate at the apex, usually glabrous. Spikes of up to 40 cm, puberulous; perfect flowers, subsessile, apetalous. Achene of about 8 mm in length, cuneate, striate, with six reflex terminal bristles; single seed, linear.
Persea americana
Fruit tree up to 20 m, with a dense, rounded or elongated crown. Alternate leaves, elliptic to obovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, penninervate. Panicles shorter than the leaves, subterminal; perfect flowers, greenish-
yellowish; pubescent calyx lobes on both surfaces. Fruit very variable in shape, size, colour and quality of the pulp.