Barrigón

This large tree grows 20 to 35 m tall, with a trunk that is swollen at the base. Its smooth grey bark is marked with characteristic broad green bands.

Its deciduous, alternate and palmately compound leaves have 5 to 9 leaflets.

The pink or cream flowers have more than 1,000 white stamens.

The fruit is an elongated capsule, 12 to 15 cm long, containing numerous tiny seeds 5 mm in diameter surrounded by whitish cottony fibres.