Tall tree, bark red or dark red-brown, peeling in strips; leaves deciduous, leaflets commonly 5-7, narrowly ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mostly 5-12 cm, acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate, more or less pubescent when young, hairless when older or sometimes pubescent on underside; flowers trimeric, green or yellow, fragrant, panicles much shorter than leaves; fruit of variable form and size, 6-10 mm long, 3-valved. Common names: almácigo, almácigo colorado, azucarero. This species is also known, colloquially, in English as the "tourist tree" because its bark turns red in the sun and peels. Common species growing across Cuba.