This native Caribbean tree is the Red Manjack, Cordia collococca.

It is usually a small to medium-sized tree with a spreading crown and smooth, oval leaves. The leaves may feel slightly rough or leathery and are often clustered toward the ends of the branches.

Its small, pale flowers appear in branching clusters. They are not especially showy, but after pollination they develop into rounded fruits that ripen from green to orange-red or bright red.

Those colorful fruits are one of the easiest ways to recognize the tree. They are fleshy and contain a single large stone. Birds and other animals eat the fruit and help spread the seeds through the surrounding woodland.

Red Manjack is native across much of the Caribbean and tropical America. It is well adapted to warm conditions and can grow in both dry and seasonally moist forests.

The tree belongs to the same genus as the Red Geiger, but its flowers are much smaller and less conspicuous. With Red Manjack, the real display comes later, when clusters of vivid red fruit stand out against the green leaves.