Herbaceous or subshrub of up to 80 cm, with milky white latex. Opposite obovate, elliptic or oblong leaves, 3 to 7 cm long. Sessile flowers, white or pink, with 5 petals joined by the base forming a tube with free lobes, solitary or in groups in the axils of the leaves. Trilobular fruit, pubescent, containing 2 to 3 black seeds, about 0.5 cm in diameter.

Tree up to 25 m tall. Simple elliptic-lanceolate leaves, up to 12 cm, acuminate. White flowers, with red lines, yellow inside, petals of 1 cm. Very narrow and long capsule, up to 60 cm, sometimes more and 3 mm wide; feathery-pubescent seeds.

Tree of up to 20 m in height, smooth greyish bark. Composite glabrous leaves, over 35 cm; 4 to 8 pairs of folioles, oblong, obovate or rounded, 7 to 20 cm, glabrous, with a shiny bright green upper surface, pale on the underside, chartaceous. Yellow flowers grouped in bright and colourful axillary racemes; rounded sepals; yellow petals of 1.5 cm, with prominent dark veins. Fruit, subcylindrical, woody, brown - ochre pod, 8 to 15 cm. 

Brown seeds, flattened, covered with a sticky pulp.

Small tree with a single stem, rarely ramified, leafy at the top. Large leaves of 20 to 60 cm, usually palmate, 7-lobed. Male staminate flowers in panicles of 10 cm or more; female flowers with yellow corolla, spiral petals. Globose or subglobose fruit up to 30 cm in diameter, yellow or orange, with milky juice; numerous black seeds.

Shrub or tree of 3 to 10 m. Leaves obovate to elliptical or ovate, 6.5 to 16 cm long and 3 to 8 cm wide, with trichomes on the upper and lower side, persistent or deciduous. Flowers arranged in 6 to 20 cm long inflorescences, pseudo-racemose; revolute sepals, sericeous adaxially and tomentose abaxially; yellow petals turning orange or red with age. Fruit in the form of drupes from 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, glabrous green and yellow when ripe.

Biennial herbaceous. Root typically globose or elongated, outer colour white, white with purple or yellowish. Almost no stem before it flowers. Leaves up to 30 cm long, glaucous, sometimes lyrate. Inflorescence stem with lobed leaves. Flowers with 4 yellow petals, arranged in corymbose clusters.