Meet The Trees
Dividivi
🌳 Caesalpinia coriaria Common Name: DividiviPapiamento Name: WatapanaScientific Name: Caesalpinia coriaria 🌿 Description The Dividivi is a small to medium-sized tree known for its distinctively wind-sculpted shape, often growing in dramatic, leaning forms due to constant trade winds. It has feathery, bipinnate leaves, small yellow-green flowers, and produces twisted brown seedpods that contain high levels …
Pal’isia Cora
Common Name: Gumbo LimboPapiamento Name: Pal’isia CoraScientific Name: Bursera simaruba The Gumbo Limbo is easily recognized by its smooth, reddish bark that peels away in thin, papery strips—earning it the nickname “Tourist Tree” because it looks like sunburned skin. It has a broad, rounded canopy and grows up to 10–15 meters tall. Its compound leaves …