flame tree

Noun

• tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery

• south Australian tree having panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers

• north Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves

• showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

• a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  huisache , cassie , mimosa bush , sweet wattle , sweet acacia , scented wattle , Acacia farnesiana , flame durrajong , Brachychiton acerifolius , Sterculia acerifolia , broad-leaved bottletree , Brachychiton australis , royal poinciana , flamboyant , peacock flower , Delonix regia , Poi