Tropical Zone Gardening: Help me Identify or get close to this poinciana type tree, 1 by Braveheartsmom

Braveheartsmom wrote:
Ditto everything Carol says about monkey pods, messy to boot. If it isn't the "fluff" from the flowers it's the seed pods, everyone of which germinates! We had to have ours cut back by half the width - it was going into the neighbors and hitting the house. Nothing seems to grow well under it, we have lost nearly all our cypress that gave us such good screening from the road. One day it will be pau...