Hamelia patens

Shrub or small tree of up to 4 m. Ternate leaves, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 5 to 21 cm, short-acuminate. Inflorescence of 3 to 15 cm in length; tubular corolla of 1.5 to 2 cm, orangish or reddish colour, puberulous. Subglobose or ellipsoid fruit, 6 to 10 mm, reddish when young, black when ripe.

Guazuma ulmifolia

Shrub or tree of up to 20 m Leaves oblong to broadly ovate, of 3-15 cm, acute to acuminate, serrate, stellate-tomentose, markedly symmetrical. Fragrant, yellowish flowers in small axillary clusters, with 5 petals of 3 mm. Woody, globular or oval fruit, measuring 2-4 cm, with hard tubers.

Gossypium barbadense

Shrub of 1 to 4 m. 3 to 7 lobed leaves, the lobes are ovate or lanceolate, with stipules. Solitary flowers, with broadly ovate, foliaceous bracts of the calyculus; calyx truncated; petals up to 8 cm, yellow with a red spot at the base. Ovoid capsule, 3 to 4, locular, acuminate, prominently dotted. Rostrate, ovate seeds, lanate, long white filaments (cotton).

Gliricidia sepium

Deciduous shrub or tree, up to 20 m. Imparipinnate compound leaves of 12 to 30 cm in length, with 7 to 25 leaflets, ovate or elliptic, glabrous on the upper side and sparsely pubescent on the underside; it has purple spikes when dry. Racemose inflorescence 5 to 7 cm; flowers with oblique calyx, erect petals 2 cm, pink in colour. Fruit, flattened linear pods of 10 to 15 cm, yellowish-brown to coffee-coloured lenticular seeds.

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