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Poitea carinalis
Poitea carinalis (also known as Carib wood or bwa kwaib) is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae that is endemic to Dominica, where it is the national flower.
Scattered individuals occur throughout the dry shrub and are occasionally planted elsewhere and since it has been adopted as the national flower of Dominica, people are now encouraged to plant it more widely.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Poitea carinalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
