Guaiacum occurs as genus in the family Zygophyllaceae. A sextuplet mintage come bush & trees, native to subtropic & tropical regions of the Americas.

A trees come grown within Florida and California as ornamental plants. the trees develop slowly & might email a height of or so Twenty m, though these are commonly to a lesser degree half that. It too yield guajacum, a gum resin used in certain drugs. the rosin has been utilized to address a kind of medicative conditions from either coughs to arthritis. Wood chips can as well become utilized to brew the tea.

Uses
A genus is renowned when a provider of lignum vitae, which is the heartwood of many coinage in the genus. Among several more aplications this was it utilized to be that used to address syphilis. E.g., Benvenuto Cellini records this use of it within his memoirs. Understand as well a quote by Nashe in the article Honorificabilitudinitatibus (there spelled 'guiacum').

Guaiacum officinale is the national flower of Jamaica, and

Guaiacum sanctum is the national tree of the Bahamas.

Everthing mintage of Guaiacum come CITES-listed