noun
- Pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds.
- synonyms: bendy tree, seaside mahoe, Thespesia populnea
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