Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size (different publications including between 70-165 species), consisting of tropical woody plants. It is named after the famous botanist Cesalpino. A woody plant is any vascular plant that has a perennial woody stem -- that is, one that supports continued vegetative growth above ground from year to year. ... chicken ...
The name Caesalpiniaceae at family level, or Caesalpinioideae at the level of subfamily, is based on this generic name. Genera Caesalpinioideae is a subfamily of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae. ... Genera Acrocarpus Arapatiella Arcoa Balsamocarpon Batesia Burkea Bussea Caesalpinia Campsiandra Cenostigma Cercidium Chidlowia Colvillea Conzattia Cordeauxia Delonix Dimorphandra Diptychandra Erythrophleum Gleditsia Gymnocladus Haematoxylum Hoffmannseggia Jacqueshuberia Lemuropisum Lophocarpinia Melanoxylum Moldenhawera Mora Moullava Orphanodendron Pachyelasma Parkinsonia Peltophorum Poeppigia Pomaria Pterogyne Pterolobium Recordoxylon Schizolobium Sclerolobium Stachyothyrsus Stahlia Stenodrepanum Stuhlmannia Sympetalandra Tachigali Tetrapterocarpon Vouacapoua...
They are the marblelike seeds produced in a spiny pod (2 seeds per pod) on a spiny, sprawling shrub that grows along the shores of many Caribbean islands and throughout tropical beaches of the world.
Caesalpinia gilliesii (bird-of-paradise bush), not to be confused with the bananalike Strelitzia, and C.
Along beaches of the British West Indies the spiny shrubs form impenetrable thickets and the ground is often littered with seeds resembling shiny gray bird eggs.
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