Ingestion causes diarrhea, and nausea. Evergreen, semi-evergreen, or deciduous shrubs with a variety of colored flowers. Leaves and honey made from the flower nectar. Seeds are green to black and partially exposed in a fleshy red cup. Leaves are large.
Flowers are pea-shaped and white, bluish, purplish, red or pink.
Fruit is long, thick, flat, knobby legume pod.